Margo Martindale

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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!”

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

“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.”

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

“I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.”

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

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

“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.”

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