Quotes from 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!

Life does not owe me a shred.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor's tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up scenarios.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

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

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.

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

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.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

Don't waste the time you do have.

I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.

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.

I love sitting at home. I love laying in bed watching television.

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.

On 'Rhoda,' they wanted my husband, Joe, to wear a pajama top when we were doing love scenes. They finally let him take it off as long as the audience saw him get into bed wearing pajama bottoms so they didn't think he was completely naked underneath.

I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

We don't know what's around the corner.