Mary Tyler Moore famous quotes

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Positive #Courage #Pain

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Relationship #Famous Love #Money

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Positive #Happiness #Meaningful

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Beautiful #Animal #Humanity

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.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Roles #Twins #Wonderful

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Diabetes

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Emotional #Disease #Never Quit

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.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Friendship #Dog #Children

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Dream #Challenges #Alive

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Might #Wells

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Children #Years #Next Year

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Bills #Fox News #Foxes

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Ideas #Doctors #Chocolate

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Laughter #Joy #Fame

The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Crush #Men

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Mother #Good Enough #Break

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Eggs #Two #Dna

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Country #Animal #Littles

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Husband #Understanding #Dollars

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Attention #Littles #Comedy

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Hurt #Drama #Littles

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Mistake #Chance #Grows

Worrying is a necessary part of life.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Worry #Parts Of Life

We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses' from the mounted police, ages 4 and 5, who turned out to have physical problems that weren't suitable for the kind of work they have to do. Now, with us, they are just out to pasture and have nothing but a good time, eating their heads off, romping and frolicking, and just doing all good horsey things.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Country #Horse #Home

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Certain #Wells

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Blood #Sugar #Bars

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one,
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Children #Needs #Adults

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Grants

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Character #Play #Actresses

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Television #Taste #Audience

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.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Responsibility #Way #Able

And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Two #Feet #Lucky

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Mom #Mother #Daughter

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Tired

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

#Choices #Killing #Given