I did a lot of commercials starting in about '75, yeah. Well, not 'a lot'; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn't immediately make 'a living' at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about '80. I had a great year in '85. I had a nice little supplement.
— Margo Martindale
Wine has class. I love wine. The drier, the better. But beer? I just can't do it.
TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.
So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.
I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'
I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.
'The Good Wife' was so unbelievably luxurious to step into.
If you need things, you work harder to get them.
You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.
I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.
I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.
My favorite thing to do is just sit outside on the stoop and talk with all my neighbors. I can go out with curlers in my hair, and nobody blinks twice. It's just sad when people want to take a picture!
I loved 'Dexter.' I loved the writing of 'Dexter.' I thought that was a brilliant show, and Michael C. Hall was just brilliant.
Let me just say, as I've gotten older, the parts have gotten better.
I've been blessed to play these great parts that just open another door and another door, is I guess how it's worked.
When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.
I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you've done.
I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.
In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down.
Texas people are very open, because it's open.
I've always learned in show business: you take the job.
I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!
I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.
I'm gaga over Richard Jenkins.
I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.
I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.
I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.
I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.
I'm from East Texas, yes.
