“Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goe...” — Marcia Gay Harden Quote

“Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.”

“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.”

“Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.”

“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!'”

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

“I've never really liked horror films.”

“I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.”

“When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o'clock curtain call for six months.”

“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”

“You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.”

“To me, when - just like when you watch a movie or you watch a TV show, to me, you know, Nicole Kidman or Leonardo DiCaprio, you know that they are actors, but also, great actors find that extension of themselves. So, when I walk through that curtain, I find the extension of myself of being the Ravishing Russian in there.”

“I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.”