83 Quotes by Marcia Gay Harden

It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.