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" If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career. "
Teri Garr
Say
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Doing
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" This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat. "
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" Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.' "
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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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" 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.' "
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" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
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" I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.' "
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" 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.' "
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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 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. "
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" You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future. "
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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 mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "
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Time
Mother
" The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good! "
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Academy
Good
" There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS. "
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Though
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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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" 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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" 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.' "
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" If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it. "
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" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "
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" I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. "
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" In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate. "
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" Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me. "
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" I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims. "
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" I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. "
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" MS doesn't define who I am. "
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