Valerie Harper Quotes

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Valerie Harper

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 22, 1940

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

Valerie Harper

If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.

Valerie Harper

I'm a perfect person to tell people not to give up.

Valerie Harper

Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.

Valerie Harper

If you die, you're not a failure.

Valerie Harper

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

Valerie Harper

I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.

Valerie Harper

Live fully in the instant.

Valerie Harper

Mine's called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. It's incurable. It's terminal. And it's in a tiny space - a huge area all around the brain and up and down the spine. But it's small area where the spinal fluid is. It's microscopic. You can't see it. It isn't lumps that they can say, 'Oh we can zap that.'

Valerie Harper

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

Valerie Harper

We think it's food that matters the most, but exercise and food both matter.

Valerie Harper

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Valerie Harper

The body is just a rooming house.

Valerie Harper

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

Valerie Harper

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

Valerie Harper

There are times when I cry. I'll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, 'Well, that was dramatic.'

Valerie Harper

Miracles occur, or people die the next day.

Valerie Harper

Don't waste the time you do have.

Valerie Harper

I felt sharing my experience may be of value or assistance in some way to others.

Valerie Harper

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

Valerie Harper