“I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the lau...” — Marcia Gay Harden Quote

“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.”

“I do pottery.”

“I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.”

“I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.”

“The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.”

“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.”

“The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.”

“I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.”

“Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.”

“My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.”

“I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.”

“If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it.”