Top 75 Quotes by Marcia Gay Harden

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

You want to know how I'm feeling? Just look at me, and I'll tell you how I'm feeling. Nothing is hidden. I'm all out there. I cry like a baby, I get upset, I stamp my feet. I'm not stoic.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.