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" I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy? "

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" 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. "

Teri Garr

Thought

Keep Going

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. "

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

" My mother was a Rockette at Radio City. "

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

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

" Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking! "

" Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease. "

Teri Garr

Awareness

Community

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

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

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

" 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. "

Teri Garr

Week

Walk

" I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Teri Garr

Step

Government

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "

Teri Garr

Grandparents

Read

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

" 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. "

Teri Garr

Head

Little

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