Louise Lasser: Mary Hartman

Quotes 

• Mary Hartman : [Rambling on live TV during a nervous breakdown]  If only the mail would come on time but it doesn't. And the flight plans, I mean they have got to alter those FLIGHT PLANS! I don't know. Maybe it's the working conditions in the factories. Maybe it is that, it's the working conditions. My husband works in these factor- I'm sorry my ex husband- I'm sorry, my estranged husband works in those factories.

  [Cracking further] 

  Mary Hartman : Maybe it's the boycotts. I was involved in a boycott consumer. I can tell you this must've been one of the most FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCES I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE! I think it was then, I think- I think it was then that I began to notice a yellow waxy buildup on my kitchen floor. And this was WAY before the sexual diamond thing, WAY before!

  [Turning to the host, oblivious] 

  Mary Hartman : My husband was having an affair, because he has this performance problem-

  [Noticing the camera, crying] 

  Mary Hartman : Oh my God! I'm sorry. Erase, erase. Don't look. I just mean it's everything, it's just everything. It's

  [stumbling over her words] 

  Mary Hartman : the cameras and the television and the p-people and the sponsors. It's too much!