I've always been a team player.
Valerie Harper
Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.
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.
Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.
Rhoda Morgenstern gave a wonderful impetus and propulsion to my career.
We don't know what's around the corner.
We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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.
I have an intention to live each moment fully.
I think I have too little to hide to be interesting.
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
My stepmother Angela is an Italian from New York City. I based Rhoda on her and a Jewish friend named Penny Ann Green. People often said that Rhoda seemed to be Italian. That was the Angela seeping through.
I'm not dying until I do.
Pearl Buck was my mother's favorite author.
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.
I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.
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.
As long as you're alive, you can do something.
Life is amazing; live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.
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.
I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.
I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.
When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'
The body is just a rooming house.
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 don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.
Death is out there for all of us.
All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.
I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.
I wouldn't give people advice except to share with them what I'm doing, which is, You're alive - stay alive.
I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
Miracles occur, or people die the next day.
I love sitting at home. I love laying in bed watching television.
My husband is the best caregiver in the world.
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.
You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.
Don't waste the time you do have.
I really look at my life as blessed.
I think you just take each day and get the best out of it and do what you can and have fun.
Talk about a woman of a certain age - Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in the hospital dying of cancer, and in the next room was her secretary, typing out her next book.
Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.
I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
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've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.
I have had a magnificent run.
I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.
It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.
