Margo Martindale Quotes

There are no rules in live television.

That's what makes live TV exciting - the unknown!

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.