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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. "

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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.' "

Teri Garr

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Sick

Life Is A

" I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community. "

" 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. "

" I plan to live to be 120! "

Teri Garr

Plan

Live

" 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. "

" I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are. "

" I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. "

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

" MS doesn't define who I am. "

Teri Garr

Who

Define

" There's people doing whatever the hell they want and getting away with it. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh. "

Teri Garr

Try

Laugh

" 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 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. "

" 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

Medicine

Think

" I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously. "

" 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. "

" God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us. "

Teri Garr

I Believe

Yes

" If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it. "

" Elvis used to have parties at his house - and I've told this story a million times - but they weren't really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that's Hollywood. "

" Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from. "

" I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting? "

" 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. "

" I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career. "

" Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. "

Teri Garr

Women

Percent

" I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again. "

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