Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.