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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Courage, Pain, Mistakes

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Mary Tyler Moore

Someone, Sometimes, Realize

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

Happen, Brave, Wonderful

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Food, Human, Choices

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Fear, Live, Able

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Time, Wife, Woman

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.
Mary Tyler Moore

Until, Won, Changes

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Live, After, Off

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Mary Tyler Moore

Character, Play, Create

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
Mary Tyler Moore

Turn, Characters, Allen

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.
Mary Tyler Moore

Decisions, Company, Fine

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.
Mary Tyler Moore

Pretty, Grant, Lou

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.
Mary Tyler Moore

Blood, Unless, Candy

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.
Mary Tyler Moore

System, Eat, Foods

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Time, Hope, Two

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Character, Feeling, Laugh

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Woman, Keep, She

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Life, Time, Happy

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Funny, Movies, Happy

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Find, Working, Wonderful

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Same, Around, Dance

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Saying, Hard, Play

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Good, Why, Wonderful

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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Work, Attention, 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.
Mary Tyler Moore

Life, Human, Two

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Nationality: American

Born: December 29, 1936

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