Mariette Hartley

“If I could change two things, it would be my chest.”

“I've been keeping journals since I was a kid.”

“I've been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.”

“Well, thank God I have this face, and it's a believable face, and that also seems to be my acting style.”

“After I played the frigid doctor on the 'Peyton Place' series, all I got for a long while was offers for more frigid doctor parts.”

“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.”

“I have tried very hard to sing. I've taken a lot of lessons. I've always wanted to. It's always been my dream.”

“I think I know what middle America enjoys seeing.”

“I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.”

“I'm a firm believer in therapy.”

“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.”

“It was a joy to do something sensual and sexy. It was exciting. I don't get many of those types of roles.”

“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.”

“I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'”

“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.”

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

“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 enjoy live television a lot, but I'm not crazy about the hours.”

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