Quotes from Teri Garr

Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.

MS doesn't define who I am.

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

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.'

Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, 'Oh, my cousin died from that.' Well, I didn't, so I'm amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I'm walking!

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

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.

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

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?

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch.

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

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.'

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

A chiropractor wishes he were a doctor, just like those people outside Spago wish they were actors.

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.

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 go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

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

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.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.