“In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in ...” — Marcia Gay Harden Quote

“In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.”

“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 loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.”

“My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.”

“I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.”

“The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.”

“To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.”

“Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.”

“I have a lot of hair, and it's quite heavy: Sometimes I'll braid it for a match so it's all together.”

“I was always the second heavy.”

“I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.”

“There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.”