Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

Acting was my first love.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

Acting was my first love before music.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.

Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Acting. It's the number one thing I love to do. That's why when people ask me what else I'd love to do, I have no answer - this is all I ever wanted to do.

Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

When I was a kid, I was really curious about acting. And I was interested in movement and dance. I wasn't good at either of those things - I didn't work at those things.

I am the only one in my family to get into acting.

Even though I'm a competitive girl, I don't see competition in this industry because every actor and actress has a unique personality that they bring to their films, which is why they get the parts they get.

I think I just need to be myself. I think that's what this 'Diva Search' competition is all about.

A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to become an actor. Then people have to make those choices for themselves and their art and what they believe in.

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.