102 Quotes by Mariette Hartley

Our deepest wounds when integrated become our greatest power.

Once we make the commitment to help ourselves, we are able to help others - and the universe supports our commitments.

My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.

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.

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.

I had married, had a child. I was content to stay at home. I had let go of the fantasy of stardom.

I've been in front of the camera the last 20 years, and it's just become a friend.

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.

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.