Teri Garr
Teri Garr
Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an American actress, comedian, dancer, and voice artist. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1982 film, Tootsie. Her other film roles include Young Frankenstein; Oh, God!; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Black Stallion; Mr. Mom;and After Hours. She also appeared as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the sitcom Friends...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth11 December 1944
CityLakewood, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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 plan to live to be 120!
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
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future
I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things
I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
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.
People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.
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.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.