Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester. "
Teri Garr
Back
First Time
Fool
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Adventure
Quality
Movies
" Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from. "
Teri Garr
Minute
Made
Person
" I think I look pretty good. And I know there are human beings my age who look the way I do. There must be stories about us - not just about people who are young and good-looking. "
Teri Garr
Think
People
Good
" If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it. "
Teri Garr
Stick
You
Important
" I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress. "
Teri Garr
Face
Work
Step
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Fighting
Television
Say
" I get this thing every once in a while that I call 'ESS:' emergency sleep situation. I'll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can't move. "
Teri Garr
Situation
Emergency
Lead
" I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it. "
Teri Garr
Been
Years
Still
" How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it! "
Teri Garr
Forget
Only
Women
" I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again. "
Teri Garr
Walk
Think
Talk
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Side
Young
Tough
" If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. "
Teri Garr
Therapy
Good
Attitude
" I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. "
Teri Garr
David
Obvious
Thanks
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Cartoons
Watch
Television
" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "
Teri Garr
Keaton
Michael
Very
" There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it. "
Teri Garr
Hell
Doing
Away
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Help
I Am
Happy
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Better
Appreciate
I Am
" My mother was a role model. "
Teri Garr
Role
Model
Mother
" The whole MS stuff put the kibosh on my career. And I sort of let it go. I even have a friend who went to CBS and said, 'I want Teri Garr to be in this series,' and the head of the network said, 'Oh no, she's got MS.' "
Teri Garr
Friend
Career
She
" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "
Teri Garr
Counted
Dancer
Movies
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Better
Said
You
" What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work. "
Teri Garr
Find
Nothing
Over
" I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline. "
Teri Garr
Really
Dancers
Discipline
" I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.' "
Teri Garr
Dance
Thought
Queen
" 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
Us
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Impact
New York
Giving
" God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us. "
Teri Garr
I Believe
Us
Yes
" I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously! "
Teri Garr
Therapy
Kind
Mental
" 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. "
Teri Garr
Like
Medicine
Think