32 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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'm gaga over Richard Jenkins.

So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.

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

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.