About Marcia Gay Harden: Marcia Gay Harden is an American film, television, and theatre actress.
All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.
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.
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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.
Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
I always wanted to be in movies.
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.
Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.
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.'
