Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Margo Martindale

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Margo Martindale.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Margo Martindale is an American character actress who has appeared on television, film, and stage. In 2011, she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for her recurring role as Mags Bennett on Justified. Martindale was nominated for an Emmy Award four times for her recurring role as Claudia on The Americans, winning the award in 2015 and 2016. She has played supporting roles in a number of films, including Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Hours, Million Dollar Baby, Uncle Frank, Dead Man Walking, The Firm, Lorenzo's Oil, The Rocketeer, ...First Do No Harm, Eye of God, Win Win, Marvin's Room, Forged, Orphan, The Savages, Hannah Montana: The Movie, August: Osage County, and Paris, je t'aime. Martindale was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 2004 for her performance in the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She also voiced a fictionalized version of herself in the Netflix adult-animated show BoJack Horseman.

American - Actress | Born: July 18, 1951

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

Margo Martindale

I'm gaga over Richard Jenkins.

Margo Martindale

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.

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

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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've always learned in show business: you take the job.

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

Margo Martindale

I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.

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 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

Let me just say, as I've gotten older, the parts have gotten better.

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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.

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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!

Margo Martindale

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

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

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

Margo Martindale

I'm from East Texas, yes.

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'The Good Wife' was so unbelievably luxurious to step into.

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I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

Margo Martindale

I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.

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I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

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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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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

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

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

I loved Paris, Je T'aime. It's like my top favorite things I've ever done and I think it was a beautiful. I think it was a perfect seven minute movie, or whatever it was.

Margo Martindale

I love, love, love acting, so if you can just go in and play, who could ask for more?

Margo Martindale

I love New York. I love how integrated it is, how everybody lives together.

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