Mariette Hartley
The casting-couch routine has been going on for ages, from top directors to the lowliest agents. I had to attend a meeting where four actresses filed complaints against the same person over his moral conduct. It's not a funny situation.Collection: Funny
I'd say Bill Bixby's character in 'Beantown' is Tom Brokaw with a heart and a sense of humor.Collection: Humor
I'm always in Jamaica in my fantasies. We have a home there, and it's my special spiritual place where I get re-nourished.Collection: Home
I've never had a homosexual or bisexual experience, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable to dip into those feelings. I think a lot of women have those feelings without acting on them.
Dad was a hunter and had guns in the house all the time.
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like a tornado, the other, gentle with grace and dignity.
I wanted to put my present joy in the context of all the past pain, to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel.
It was a joy to do something sensual and sexy. It was exciting. I don't get many of those types of roles.
I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.
When you sing, you're releasing so much more than you are when you're speaking. You risk more as a singer.
It's nice to be thought of as soft and sensual.
I'm impulsive, spontaneous; I have a joy in my life today that doesn't quit.
Our deepest wounds when integrated become our greatest power.
My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.
There are problems in Canada. There is a certain inconsistency in the acting. I don't mean to sound chauvinistic, but we do have a larger supply of good actors in Hollywood. There are good actors in Canada, but not as wide a choice.
I feel my free-est when I don't know where I'm going, when I'm not scripted, and doing crazy things.
I started acting when I was 10.
I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.
Theater has always been my less-fickle friend.
I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.
There wasn't exactly a plethora of physical affection in our family.
I talk only about my journey because that's all I know. That's what the audience always pulls me back to. There's a hunger out there for the spoken journey, just to share the experience, the strength, the hope.
I don't even consider it therapy anymore. I consider it availing myself of a guide.
At some point you've got to get to yourself and say, 'Wait a minute, I've been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don't hand a lot of it on to my children.'
My training was in theater, and I was asked to be a journalist.
Tom Brokaw has been criticized for not being patient enough with me. But, in his defense, he is a news purist, and what he does is absolutely right for him. When we were thrown together, there was the matter of an actress coming in to do the news. I was missing the camera, not reading very well - there was a lot of stuff I had to get used to.
I think I know what middle America enjoys seeing.
I've been able to survive a lot of things, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.
Humility is a very tough thing to have, especially when you're a tough guy.
Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.
I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.
Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So he said how astonished he was that Sidney Poitier, with whom he'd just taped an interview, had been so articulate.
I consider myself an articulate actor, and I don't consider myself a second-tier actor.
Mariette is a nickname. My real name is Mary Loretta.
I modeled myself after Deborah Kerr for her romantic, untouched quality; Ingrid Bergman for her strength; and Kay Kendall for her wonderful sense of humor.
If I could change two things, it would be my chest.
My life was a legacy of death and humor.
I enjoy live television a lot, but I'm not crazy about the hours.
I would be nowhere without my mistakes. I rely on them.
I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'
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.
Once we make the commitment to help ourselves, we are able to help others - and the universe supports our commitments.
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.
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I finally admitted defeat and went into therapy.
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.