Mary Tyler Moore Show Quotes

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever. ~ Bob Newhart

Mary [Tyler Moore] was absolutely brilliant ... She is a fabulous actress. She can do anything. ~ Gavin MacLeod

I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure. ~ Gavin MacLeod

Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that. ~ Gavin MacLeod

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one, ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

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. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

I've had problems with my eyes, and my legs hurt if I walk a great deal. That's due to very bad circulation. It's called claudication, and it's painful. So I have to stop if I'm walking, and pretending I'm looking in the window, so that I can rest them a little bit and then start off again. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers. ~ Betty White

I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air. ~ Mamie Gummer

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

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly - maybe - and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable. ~ Nicholson Baker

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. ~ Iris Murdoch

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

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.' ~ Betty White

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

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

Worrying is a necessary part of life. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

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

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. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top. ~ Kevin Spacey

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them! ~ Mary Tyler Moore

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

I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that. ~ Mary Tyler Moore

I moved out to L.A. in July and Hot L Baltimore started in September or October. So I had done a few things. I'd done a Mary [Tyler Moore]. I'd done a Waltons. I hadn't done a Rhoda yet I don't think. ~ Richard Masur