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" 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. "

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" I was trying to work, but I noticed that people, if they had any inkling of the idea that I was sick or had MS... people shunned me. No work after that. "

" It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on. "

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

" If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it. "

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

" Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. "

" I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously! "

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

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

" 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. "

" Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me. "

" I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl. "

" My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me. "

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

" I plan to live to be 120! "

" There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it. "

" 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 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 went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester. "

" I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I go to Yosemite a lot. To get there, you fly from L.A. to Fresno and rent a car. So I know about Fresno. It looks like the entire city was built in 1946 in three months - all these low California ranch style homes. The whole city looks like that. "

" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "

" My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy. "

" Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they weren't really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that's Hollywood. "

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

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