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" I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl. "

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" I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.' "

" I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny. "

" I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go. "

" 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. "

" I plan to live to be 120! "

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Live

" What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work. "

" Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that. "

" 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.' "

" '30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think. "

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Rock

I Think

" 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. "

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

" 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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Medicine

Think

" My mother was a role model. "

" 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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Head

Little

" When you're a kid, you should be a kid. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag. "

" My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me. "

" Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in. "

" 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. "

" With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do. "

" Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out. "

" 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! "

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

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