102 Quotes by Mariette Hartley

What took some time for me to figure out was how to have a life outside my career, to find a way to be inclusive rather than exclusive. It came only after years of psychotherapy and deep soul-searching.

I started acting when I was 10.

Mariette is a nickname. My real name is Mary Loretta.

What people don't realize is that I've been trying to get to Bethlehem since I was four years old. By that, I mean I've been trying to attain perfection since I was kid. And it took me more than 40 years to learn that it wasn't going to happen.

Dad was a hunter and had guns in the house all the time.

I think I've proven that I'm issue-oriented and I'm not apolitical. But I'm not a journalist and I don't want to be one with that veneer exterior.

My karma doesn't seem to be a big screen karma: it's definitely a little-screen karma.

I'm not a compulsive worker, and I've never been a workaholic, so if I have a three-week vacation, I don't want to do a movie-of-the-week.

Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.