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.

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.

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

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.

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

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

Worrying is a necessary part of life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey and wet and damp and dreary that you don't feel you have to smile and percolate as you do on a sunny spring day.

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.

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.

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

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.