Mary Tyler Moore > Quotes

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― 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

“sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“It's none of my business what other people think of me.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“Anyway, everybody gets something and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I thin, the true redemption, after all.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“Smoking is every bit the personal assistant that drinking is. It makes life easier. Its presence is a literal and figurative buffer between you and the face you're talking to, easily morphing into another person when you're lonely.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“Today, I think most smokers experience the same denial as alcoholics regarding the impact of this abuse.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All

“The Catholic faith gives such hope and solace to its followers as they seek salvation through a litany of shalts and shalt nots, but compassion for our fellows is a quality that requires little knowledge and is, I think, the true redemption, after all.”
― Mary Tyler Moore, After All