American - Actress | December 11, 1944 -
This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat.
Teri Garr
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If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies!
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Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.'
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When you're a kid, you should be a kid.
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I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl.
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If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it.
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I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously!
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I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me.
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If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.
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Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me.
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The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!
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I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in 'Tootsie.' Under Sydney Pollack's direction, 'Tootsie' had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.
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