- I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
- [January, 2013, on being told she has months to live] I don't think of dying. I think of being here now.
- Life is a miracle.
- [in 2015, on her cancer,] I talk to the cells all the time. I say, "What the hell are you doing? Not only are you destructive, coming in and ruining all my plans, but you are dumb! You are killing the host. If you take a low profile I can live with you, here on the edge of the sword. You can fall one way or the other". Right now, things are working fantastically. Tomorrow, I don't know.
- We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
- I have cancer. It's in my brain . . . What are you gonna do about it?
- I'm a big mouth. ... I really want Americans and all of us to be less afraid of death, know that it's a passage. But don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. While you're living, live.
- My biggest regret was that we hadn't been given an opportunity to write a final episode of Rhoda. The Mary Tyler Moore Show had wrapped up with a perfect, bittersweet and amusing finale on which I was thrilled to be able to appear. I wish that Rhoda had been given the same opportunity.
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