Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Mariette Hartley
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I enjoy live television a lot, but I'm not crazy about the hours.
I've been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.
Theater has always been my less-fickle friend.
I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.
Tom Brokaw has been criticized for not being patient enough with me. But, in his defense, he is a news purist, and what he does is absolutely right for him. When we were thrown together, there was the matter of an actress coming in to do the news. I was missing the camera, not reading very well - there was a lot of stuff I had to get used to.
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I finally admitted defeat and went into therapy.
I modeled myself after Deborah Kerr for her romantic, untouched quality; Ingrid Bergman for her strength; and Kay Kendall for her wonderful sense of humor.
I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.
Drinking made me a lot more free sexually; the restrictions were off. I was a compulsive, compliant 'good girl' by day and a 'bad girl' at night.
I got used to certain things that normal kids don't get used to, like, when my mother went into the kitchen for things other than just cooking. I could hear the bottle open up and I could hear the chugs. Then the next morning, none of it was discussed. You grow up feeling crazy.
I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'
I started acting when I was 10.
My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.
I'm impulsive, spontaneous; I have a joy in my life today that doesn't quit.
My family is really a classy 'Simpsons.'
At some point you've got to get to yourself and say, 'Wait a minute, I've been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don't hand a lot of it on to my children.'
I give as much detail as I do about the bad times because people out there don't know that others have been through hell but then through the process of amazing grace. You hope that someone out there will hear what you have to say, and that it may matter.
I've been in front of the camera the last 20 years, and it's just become a friend.
I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.
I'm always in Jamaica in my fantasies. We have a home there, and it's my special spiritual place where I get re-nourished.
I think the reason why 'Star Trek' works so well was its small family feeling. The show felt small, you could see the mistakes, you could see rocks weren't rocks. You caught them at it all the time, but you didn't care because you were so hooked to the people and to the stories. It was a fabulous show.
My greatest strength as a person? I guess I get caught in it a lot, but I think it's my ability to put myself in someone else's shoes.
Both Mom and Dad were blackout, killer drinkers. Dad came to school football games drunk. I'd find Mom passed out in the bushes, scared and hiding.
My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.
My life was a legacy of death and humor.
I don't even consider it therapy anymore. I consider it availing myself of a guide.
I talk only about my journey because that's all I know. That's what the audience always pulls me back to. There's a hunger out there for the spoken journey, just to share the experience, the strength, the hope.
My karma doesn't seem to be a big screen karma: it's definitely a little-screen karma.
My training was in theater, and I was asked to be a journalist.
Humility is a very tough thing to have, especially when you're a tough guy.
Before the Polaroid commercials, my image was that of a solid actress, a theater actress who could do anything. But the Polaroid commercials were high comedy... Through them I was finally noticed as a comedian.
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.
Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.
It seems to have taken me a long time to find my identity.
I would be nowhere without my mistakes. I rely on them.
If you are on the right medication... stay on it and don't change. But if it doesn't seem to be working, then go to a doctor and find the right one for you.
When you are shooting a movie in a week, there's not much time to travel.
Our deepest wounds when integrated become our greatest power.
It's hard to be a long-distance mother.
Well, thank God I have this face, and it's a believable face, and that also seems to be my acting style.
During the years I was growing up, I was trying very hard to be a regular person.
I'd say Bill Bixby's character in 'Beantown' is Tom Brokaw with a heart and a sense of humor.
If I could change two things, it would be my chest.
I wanted to put my present joy in the context of all the past pain, to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel.
Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So he said how astonished he was that Sidney Poitier, with whom he'd just taped an interview, had been so articulate.
I had married, had a child. I was content to stay at home. I had let go of the fantasy of stardom.
My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre.
There wasn't exactly a plethora of physical affection in our family.
My father was a farm boy who never learned to be holding and supportive.
Once we make the commitment to help ourselves, we are able to help others - and the universe supports our commitments.
Mariette is a nickname. My real name is Mary Loretta.
I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.
Dad was a hunter and had guns in the house all the time.
It's nice to be thought of as soft and sensual.
I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.
I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.
I think I know what middle America enjoys seeing.
I have a real trust that where I am is where I'm supposed to be. I may not be what I want to be or what I could be, but I sure ain't what I was.
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