“All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadw...” — Marcia Gay Harden Quote

“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.”

“Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.”

“I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.”

“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.”

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

“You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.”

“I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.”

“From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.”

“To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.”

“One of my dreams has always been to be in a Broadway musical.”

“Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.”

“What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.”