Quotes by Mary Tyler Moore

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
– Mary Tyler Moore
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
– 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
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
– 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
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