Quotes from Valerie Harper

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

I am a cancer patient, and I continue to fight with the hope that a cure may be just around the corner. I am grateful to my family, friends, loved ones, and to fans that I am in their thoughts and prayers. That support gives me great hope.

I've always been a team player.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

The movie that really 'did it for me' was 'All About Eve.' The backstage feeling, the authenticity, the passion those people had for their lives in the theater. I must say, the movie 'All About Eve,' what a great movie! 'All About Eve' had a profound effect on my life.

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'

Whatever happens, who cares.

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

The disease I have is quite a rare cancer, and it is located in a limited area - a very widespread area, but narrow. So a lot can happen if the cancer starts getting really aggressive, pressing on parts of the brain and causing me to lose either my speech or my ability to think, etc.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Don't miss your life.

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.

The first Broadway play I ever saw was 'The Bad Seed' by Maxwell Anderson and with Patty McCormack. 'The Bad Seed' was from an extraordinary novel by William March.

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

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.'

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

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

It can be frightening. I think, 'I don't want to go.' But I give myself room to grieve.

Daddy was a salesman and away a lot, always working. My mom took me to the movies on Thursday nights because it was dish night, when they gave you a free dish along with your movie ticket.

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.

I think you just take each day and get the best out of it and do what you can and have fun.

I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.