Marcia Gay Harden

“For me, the work is the most important thing.”

“I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're trying on these different skins.”

“You have to have a sense of humor to be a parent.”

“I was not the beautiful girl. I was the funny girl.”

“I'm not a method actor. I don't have to live in a cave to play a caveman.”

“I think there are some people who are just born to be on camera. I don't think I'm one of them.”

“The secret is to have a sense of yourself, a sense of your own interior life and values.”

“I love that I've been able to do so many different things, and I've been able to be a working actor.”

“I don't think of myself as a celebrity. I'm a working actor.”

“You can only be in a state of just chasing after the money for so long. It's not nourishing.”

“My job is to be a storyteller. I'm not a politician.”

“I feel that what is important is to not give up. To be a survivor.”

“I'm a character actress. That's what I do.”

“I think what's important for a parent is to be a role model.”

“In my own life, I'm not a risk-taker. I'm a homebody.”

“The joy of acting is to be able to play different characters and to be able to transform.”