Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Know
Live
Better
Related Quotes:
" Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Pretty
Much
Grant
" Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Responsibility
Reach
People
" The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Leading
Only
Man
" I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Doing
Funny
Movies
" You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Best
You
Got
" Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Why
Good
Last
" Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Mistakes
Brave
Courage
" And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheating
Look
Wife
" Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Now
Me
Tomorrow
" And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Losing
Hope
Two
" I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Getting
Gifts
Had
" The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Work
Seem
Now
" I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Responsibility
Know
Kind
" I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Pure
Sugar
Candy
" Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Because
Eat
Well
" I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Food
Know
Down
" I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Television
Audience
Changes
" No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Blood
Sugar
Unless
" You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. "
Mary Tyler Moore
You
Brave
Wonderful
" I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Enough
Feel
Good
" I've had problems with my eyes, and my legs hurt if I walk a great deal. That's due to very bad circulation. It's called claudication, and it's painful. So I have to stop if I'm walking, and pretending I'm looking in the window, so that I can rest them a little bit and then start off again. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Great
Walk
Eyes
" When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Why
Doctor
Diabetes
" And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Feeling
Audience
Way
" I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Think
Way
Voice
" There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin. "
Mary Tyler Moore
I Am
People
Good
" I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Been
Always
Own
" It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Company
Decisions
Fine
" But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Time
My Life
Life
" And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Looking
Clever
Fly
" I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. "
Mary Tyler Moore
Create
Me
Play