Valerie Harper Quotes

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Valerie Harper

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 22, 1940

I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.

Valerie Harper

Comedy is saving me.

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Don't live in fear of dying.

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Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.

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I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.

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Actors often want to look like they're comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, 'I'm your gal. I'm what you need.' Yet you don't want to push.

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I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

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I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

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Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

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I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

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With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get rid of this or that.

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Above all, learn to live when you're dying.

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Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

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Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.

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Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.

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It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

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You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.

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I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

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What we really wanted to call it was 'I Rhoda Book.'

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Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

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