Teri Garr Quotes

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Teri Garr

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 11, 1944

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

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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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My mother was a role model.

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

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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.

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

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I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?

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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.

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

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

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

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It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on.

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They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore.

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I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously!

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I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me.

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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.

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The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!

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