Zitat des Tages von Valerie Harper:
I've had a good run; what more can I ask for?
I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.
I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
Stop working so hard at being interesting and focus on what's outside yourself. There are universes out there that need to be explored. And, an interested person is extremely interesting.
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.
When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
The body is just a rooming house.
That's very unusual for an actor, to have gainful employment that they are secure in, that they know is going to be there year after year.
I really look at my life as blessed.
Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.
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.
Life does not owe me a shred.
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.
I'm painfully middle class.
My husband is the best caregiver in the world.
I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.
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.
I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.
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.
At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'
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 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 have an intention to live each moment fully.
As long as you're alive, you can do something.
I felt sharing my experience may be of value or assistance in some way to others.
I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.
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.
Rhoda Morgenstern gave a wonderful impetus and propulsion to my career.
What we really wanted to call it was 'I Rhoda Book.'
I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.
Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.