Teri Garr Quotations

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

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.

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 have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting

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.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

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 can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future

You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.

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.

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 understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

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 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 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

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 do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career

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.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things

Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.

I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif

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.

I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

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?

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

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.

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.

Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.'

Shoot for the moon, ... And you need to find a cure quickly for this scum-sucking pig of a disease because women rule the world.

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.

Sandy: Boy, you must really think I'm stupid or something. Jeff: Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face.

I plan to live to be 120!

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

MS doesn't define who I am.

I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

No matter how bad the truth is, it doesn't tear you apart inside like dishonesty.