A biography for Mary Tyler Moorehasn’t been written yet.
“Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.”
“I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.”
“I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.”
“It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.”
“And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.”
“I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.”
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.”
“You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.”
“Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.”
“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.”
“I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down.”
“I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.”
“I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.”
“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
“Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.”
“I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.”
“What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.”
“No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.”
“And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.”
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”