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.'

Margo Martindale

I loved 'Dexter.' I loved the writing of 'Dexter.' I thought that was a brilliant show, and Michael C. Hall was just brilliant.

Margo Martindale

I've been blessed to play these great parts that just open another door and another door, is I guess how it's worked.

Margo Martindale

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.

Margo Martindale

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.

Margo Martindale

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Margo Martindale

You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.

Margo Martindale

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

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.'

Margo Martindale

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.

Margo Martindale

Wine has class. I love wine. The drier, the better. But beer? I just can't do it.

Margo Martindale

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.

Margo Martindale

I'm from East Texas, yes.

Margo Martindale

Texas people are very open, because it's open.

Margo Martindale

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

Margo Martindale

In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down.

Margo Martindale

I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.

Margo Martindale

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

Margo Martindale

If you need things, you work harder to get them.

Margo Martindale

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

Margo Martindale

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.

Margo Martindale