American - Actress | July 18, 1951 -
If you need things, you work harder to get them.
Margo Martindale
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I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.
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I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.
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I've been blessed to play these great parts that just open another door and another door, is I guess how it's worked.
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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.'
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Let me just say, as I've gotten older, the parts have gotten better.
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So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.
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I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.
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