Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Teri Garr
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.
Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.
I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'
Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis.
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.
Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.
Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.
When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'
My mother was a Rockette at Radio City.
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.
People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't.
Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.
If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies!
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.
People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny.
There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.
This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat.
Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking!
There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.
A chiropractor wishes he were a doctor, just like those people outside Spago wish they were actors.
I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'
'30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think.
When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.
Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
I plan to live to be 120!
I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.
MS doesn't define who I am.
There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.
I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.
I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit.
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl.
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.
I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.
I may not be able to run around the block anymore, but I love my life.
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.
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