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" I don't let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials. "

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" My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father. "

Teri Garr

Movie

Father

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me. "

" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "

" I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining. "

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

" 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 plan to live to be 120! "

Teri Garr

Plan

Live

" If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career. "

" I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in 'Tootsie.' Under Sydney Pollack's direction, 'Tootsie' had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera. "

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

" Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch. "

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

" Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in. "

" I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. "

" I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell. "

Teri Garr

Story

Write

" I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously. "

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

" God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us. "

Teri Garr

I Believe

Yes

" Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag. "

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

Teri Garr

Always

Going

" How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it! "

" '30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think. "

Teri Garr

Rock

I Think

" I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl. "

" Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.' "

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

" Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating. "

" 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. "