“After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She shou...” — Marcia Gay Harden Quote

“After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'”

“I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.”

“Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.”

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

“Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.”

“With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.”

“I was trying to come to Houston to try to win games after being in losing environments. I wanted to win. That was my main factor. But we hit a bump in the road with me wanting to win and them wanting to rebuild.”

“Fantasmas' is very empathetic toward everyone who's onscreen. The characters are the kind of people you bump into that you might never see again but they made an impact on your life.”

“They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'”

“Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.”

“I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them. It can be embarrassing at times.”