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
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
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. – Mary Tyler Moore
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
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 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
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. – 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them. – Mary Tyler Moore
