Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.
Being in show business and being rejected so much from the get go, starting out being an actress, I always had hope.
I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.
I don't even focus on what could be the worst thing. I think the worst thing for me is sometimes how other people treat me.
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
I got a diagnosis in '99. I didn't know what was wrong with me for years. I had as long as 10 years when I had no symptoms.
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
I knew Richard Pryor years ago. But I have not seen him lately. He does have a more progressive form of the disease.
I plan to live to be 120!
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
If you sit around, you get stiff. You have to move, but it's very tricky because if you move too much you wear yourself out.
In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.
MS doesn't define who I am.
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
One of the reasons my diagnosis was not in black and white was because I didn't want it to be. Denial with a capitol D.
Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.
Some people are in wheelchairs, but they're allowed to have a positive attitude, too.
Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
The most important thing is when you do something proactive to help yourself. You feel better mentally and emotionally.
There are different types of MS.
There are some really expensive French shoes calle ARCH for formal occasions, but I am not very formal, as you can tell.
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.
This is almost exactly what happened to me: Lesions on my spine and not on my brain and a clear lumbar puncture. It's true.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
Teri Garr has said that she learned a passable German accent in twenty four hours after Mel Brooks told her that she had lost the role she had originally tried out for in Young Frankenstein to Madeline Kahn.
Though she often played "spacey" and un-intelligent characters on film and TV, Garr competed well on celebrity Jeopardy in 1999 and tied for second place.
Garr was billed under many names early in her career, usually with the first name "Terry" or "Terri." She settled on Teri Garr at the suggestion of a Los Angeles numerologist who thought that double "R's" in a first name were unlucky.
Among her relationships, Garr was married to actor John O'Neil from 1993-1996. She has one adopted daugher, Molly, born in 1993.
Garr has served as an official ambassador for MS (multiple sclerosis) LifeLines, a support organization for people and their families that suffer from the degenerative nervous system disease.
The parents of Teri Garr also had entertainment backgrounds. Her father Eddie Garr was in vaudeville and her mother Phyllis was a part-time dancer (once a Rockette) and wardrobe manager.
Teri Garr attended North Hollywood High School and California State University at Northridge.
She appeared (uncredited} in the 1964 Elvis Presley movie Roustabout as a Carny dancer. She danced in a total of nine Elvis Presley films.
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