A biography for Teri Garrhasn’t been written yet.
“Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.”
“'30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think.”
“The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!”
“I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.”
“Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.”
“Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.”
“My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.”
“I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.”
“I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.”
“How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!”
“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.”
“Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.'”
“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.”
“I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny.”
“My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.”
“There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.”
“I think I look pretty good. And I know there are human beings my age who look the way I do. There must be stories about us - not just about people who are young and good-looking.”
“Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends.”
“You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.”
“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?”