9 Quotes by Marcia Harden

My dad wasn't thrilled at my wanting to act. He even offered to pay for a computer course if I'd change my mind.

It is a satire of the first family, so I certainly studied her.

I was barely in my teens, living in Greece where my dad, an officer in the U.S. Navy, was stationed. He took me and my four brothers and sisters to this ancient theater at the foot of the Parthenon, and we saw this amazing Greek drama. He tried to make it a learning experience.

Brad works in a really different way because his craft is very different. His upbringing is very different. Brad came up through film and he was like, what, 10 when he did Thelma and Louise? He came up through film, so he has a whole different way of working. What I loved about Brad-and a lot of people won't do this-Brad is extremely generous. He'll try anything.

Ed Harris and I first worked together in New York on Sam Shepard's play, Simpatico. Harris was never boring, which made working with him a blast. I never knew when he'd lunge across the stage and say his lines an inch from my nose, or get tickled and go upstage with his back to the audience so they couldn't see him laughing.

The story takes in the lives of several characters on three different levels at the same time, including the TV series. It's complicated, but very entertaining.

Dad, who's here tonight, thank you for teaching me how to soldier through tough situations, and mom for teaching me to do it gracefully,

I'm going to work forever, and I'm going to have a million different kinds of roles so the pressures and the desires are a little bit different, and maybe they wed at certain points. Of course, I want to carry a movie that means something to me, whether it's an independent or a major studio film. I want to play a character that's substantial and means something.

In our family, we recognized that jockeying for position, so it meant a lot for me to be able to play the character who was doing that in a transparent and needy way. I think mothers-I don't know-make each one feel more favorite. But then again, maybe not. The weird thing is, does it affect you in later life? If you knew you were the favored one?