Mary Tyler Moore
Worrying is a necessary part of life.Collection: Worry
I would surround myself with people who know what they're doing.Collection: People
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.Collection: Emotional
Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Wonderful
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.Collection: Friendship
Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.Collection: Night
Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.Collection: Attitude
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.Collection: Mom
The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.Collection: Wish
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.Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Optimistic
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: New York
I have always been a combination of both security and insecurity.Collection: 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.Collection: Attention
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 eggCollection: Dna
No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shakyCollection: Blood
I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.Collection: Thinking
Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.Collection: Fans
I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.Collection: Pain
My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.Collection: Quality
I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.Collection: Roots
I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.Collection: Thinking
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. I don't know how to do the other, so I won't consider television until the audience's taste changes.Collection: Littles
I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.Collection: Diabetes
I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.Collection: Watches
Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou GrantCollection: Grants
I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.Collection: Children
I don't want anyone to tell me something.Collection: Want
I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate is not determined by outside influences. You can write wherever you are. I don't think I have the talent.Collection: Writing
I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Years
Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the systemCollection: Recycling
I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.Collection: Mother
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.Collection: Pain