Teri Garr

“I'm really grateful for my dancers' discipline.”

“My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.”

“You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.”

“With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.”

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

“Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.”

“There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.”

“Someday, I'll make the right connection with the house I'm meant to be in.”

“I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again.”

“I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me.”

“I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.”

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

“In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.”

“Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.”

“Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.”

“There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.”

“I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.”

“I may not be able to run around the block anymore, but I love my life.”

“My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'”

“I don't let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials.”