Valerie Harper

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

— Valerie Harper

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

— Valerie Harper

You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.

— Valerie Harper

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day,

— Valerie Harper

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a…

— Valerie Harper

It can be frightening. I think, 'I don't want to go.' But I give myself room to grieve.

— Valerie Harper

Actors often want to look like they're comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, 'I'm your gal. I'm what you…

— Valerie Harper

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

— Valerie Harper

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live…

— Valerie Harper

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

— Valerie Harper

Anything I can give women to help them feel better about themselves, that's what I want to do.

— Valerie Harper

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever…

— Valerie Harper

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she…

— Valerie Harper

I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the…

— Valerie Harper

On 'Rhoda,' they wanted my husband, Joe, to wear a pajama top when we were doing love scenes. They finally let him…

— Valerie Harper

There are times when I cry. I'll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to…

— Valerie Harper

I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's…

— Valerie Harper

I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor's tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer,…

— Valerie Harper

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit…

— Valerie Harper

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind…

— Valerie Harper

I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the…

— Valerie Harper

We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less…

— Valerie Harper

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

— Valerie Harper

With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get…

— Valerie Harper

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

— Valerie Harper

It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

— Valerie Harper

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

— Valerie Harper

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense…

— Valerie Harper

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good?…

— Valerie Harper

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about…

— Valerie Harper

All of us are going to die. Every single one of us. So, while you're alive, be alive.

— Valerie Harper

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

— Valerie Harper

Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that…

— Valerie Harper

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day…

— Valerie Harper

The disease I have is quite a rare cancer, and it is located in a limited area - a very widespread area,…

— Valerie Harper