Marcia Cross Quotes

• Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

  Marcia Cross

• With the red hair, you get the white skin; it’s a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

  Marcia Cross

• When ‘Desperate Housewives’ ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

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• What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

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• Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.

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• It’s not like I’m cooking! I’m breastfeeding – I feel like that’s the best cooking I could do.

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• It’s kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I’ll be a real doctor.

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• If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn’t need to be done.

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• I’ve had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe what you did for me – thank you. I love you so much.’

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• I’ve been working so hard for the past eight years and I’m tired – but I’m also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I’ve lived.

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• I’ll tell you my routine – it’s really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

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• I’d never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I’m going to face temptation more.

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• I’d like to be a wife and mother. I guess I’ll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

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• I would ask my dad what he did, and he’d say, ‘I listen to people’s problems.’ In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

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• I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they’re worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, ‘What if my girls don’t wear hats?’ But at 13 months old, they could say ‘hat.’

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• I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it’s taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week – it’s a dream. I can’t imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

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• I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

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• I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

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• I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can’t do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I’m exhausted and feel like I’m running in fumes.

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• I have good genes in my family, so we’ll see just how long I’ll be around.

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Marcia Cross (24)

Birth:	25th March, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Cross was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts. She is one of three daughters of Janet, a teacher, and Mark Cross, a personnel manager. Cross was raised Catholic, and attended Marlborough High School, from where she graduated in 1980. Upon graduating high school, Cross received a half-scholarship to Juilliard, and graduated in 1984 with a B.F.A. in Acting. Cross returned to school in 1997 to earn a master's degree in psychology, which she received from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2003.

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