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" 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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" I went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease. "

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

" 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.' "

" You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future. "

" I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. "

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

" 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.' "

" You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice. "

" If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. "

" I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff. "

" There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's always going to be somebody worse off than me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "