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" 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. "

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" What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK. "

Teri Garr

Happy

Good

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

" I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh. "

Teri Garr

Try

Laugh

" I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again. "

" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

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

" My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.' "

Teri Garr

Book

Title

" When I was a dancer, I would see that dancers were treated like garbage. I mean like, like extras. "

Teri Garr

Garbage

Mean

" 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 plan to live to be 120! "

Teri Garr

Plan

Live

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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 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. "

" I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays. "

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

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

" 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. "

Teri Garr

Idea

Work

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

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

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

Teri Garr

Story

Write

" 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. "

" I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats. "