130 Quotes by Valerie Harper

I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.

The disease I have is quite a rare cancer, and it is located in a limited area - a very widespread area, but narrow. So a lot can happen if the cancer starts getting really aggressive, pressing on parts of the brain and causing me to lose either my speech or my ability to think, etc.

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

I really look at my life as blessed.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the speech patterns and family attitudes of Jews and Italians in the New York area, anyway.

The body is just a rooming house.

Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.

I'm basically an actress, not a comedienne, and if something comes along that appeals to me, I'll do it.