Valerie Harper Quotes

"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
-Valerie Harper

"It's lonely not to have other actors to go with you on the journey."
-Valerie Harper

"Golda was born in 1898. Her life parallels the life of the Jewish people in the 20th century. The text is beautiful. It gives enough history so that non-Jews can follow it."
-Valerie Harper

"You see her extreme ... pain about leaving her family for work, her husband wanting her to be Sadie, Sadie, married lady, and her wanting to go to work for the Party and the state. You have to admire the fact that she made a stand for what she needed to do as a human being, and just the degree of service out there."
-Valerie Harper

"SAG elections are going to be squeaky clean from now on, ... Win or lose, I feel this is a huge win."
-Valerie Harper

"In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture."
-Valerie Harper

"[The front-runners in the bid to represent Hollywood actors are Melissa Gilbert, best known as frontier girl Laura Ingalls from] Little House on the Prairie, ... Rhoda."
-Valerie Harper