Valerie Harper

If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.

When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor.

At an ERA fundraiser years ago, one of my favorite buttons was the one that said, 'Every mother is a working mother.'

I don't wake up saying, 'Oh, I'm going to die.' It's a waste of time. It really is.

Don't waste the time you do have.

Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

Death is out there for all of us.

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

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.