Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

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

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

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

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

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

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.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

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

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.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

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

Worrying is a necessary part of life.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

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.

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.

My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

I have always been a combination of both security and insecurity.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

I don't want anyone to tell me something.

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

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

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.

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

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.

Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

I would surround myself with people who know what they're doing.

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