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" I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career. "
Teri Garr
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. "
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" I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.' "
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" I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting? "
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" What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50? "
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" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes. "
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" People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems. "
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" 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. "
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" MS doesn't define who I am. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it. "
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" 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. "
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" Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see. "
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" I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. "
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" Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out. "
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" My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.' "
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" With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do. "
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" How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it! "
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" Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. "
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" My mother was a role model. "
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" 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. "
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" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
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