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.
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.
And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
Because it's been my experience in the past if I give away too much information, something awful happens and it doesn't work.
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.
I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.
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.
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.
I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
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.
I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.
Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.
No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.
No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.
Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
The hard things to live with are the threat of amputation, the threat of blindness.
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 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.
Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany.
Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.
What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore is a Roman Catholic.
In 1981, Mary Tyler Moore won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" for the movie Ordinary People.
In 1993, Mary Tyler Moore won an Emmy for "Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special" for the tv movie Stolen Babies.
Mary Tyler Moore was the executive producer of the TV movie Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Gimes.
Mary Tyler Moore is the a co-founder of Broadway Barks, which is an annual adopt-a-thon in New York City, New York.
Mary Tyler Moore went to Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1980, Mary Tyler Moore was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Actress" for her role as Beth Jarrett in the movie Ordinary People.
In 1961, Mary Tyler Moore made her film debut in the movie X-15.
Mary Tyler Moore met her current husband, Dr. Robert Levine, when she had to take her ailing mother to the hospital.
The mascot for Mary Tyler Moore's production company MTM was an orange striped kitten named Mimsie.
In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore was honored with the title "Queen of Brooklyn" during a "Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival."
In March of 2001, Mary Tyler Moore was the celebrity sponsor for the "Great American Meatout."
Mary Tyler Moore was married to Dick Meeker from 1955 until 1961. She then was married to Grant Tinker from 1962 until 1981. She married Dr Robert Levine in 1983, and as of 2006, they are still married.
Mary Tyler Moore tried to help her brother end his life in an assisted suicide, but the attempt failed.
Mary Tyler Moore is 5'8" tall.
Mary's character from The Dick Van Dyke Show, Laura Petrie, was named number 78 on "Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters". She shares that rank with Dick Van Dyke's character, Rob Petrie.
Mary has been a vegetarian for many years.
Mary has had five TV series after The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of which was renewed for a second season.
In 1955, Mary got her first break in show business as the dancing kitchen appliance "Happy Hotpoint," the Hotpoint Appliance elf, in commercials which aired during the broadcast of the tv show The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.
While filming the 2000 reunion telefilm Mary and Rhoda with Valerie Harper, Mary broke a bone in her wrist.
In 1984, Mary entered the Betty Ford Center for "social drinking habit".
Mary portrayed the first Sam, who was in charge of the answering service on CBS Television's 1957 series Richard Diamond, Private Detective. She was never seen on camera, only her legs were. She the show after only three months.
She was a heavy smoker during her time on The Dick Van Dyke Show, but has since quit.
In 1988, she appeared in the Broadway play Sweet Sue alongside actors Lynn Redgrave and Barry Tubb.
In 2001, Mary Tyler Moore testified before Congress calling for an increase in funding for diabetes and to support embryonic stem cell research.
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