Marion Ross Quotations

Oh, we saw a lot. My goodness, we saw a lot,

Shouting does not help if you are talking to someone who has a hearing loss, especially if they wear hearing aids. Shouting just makes things worse.

I love being her. She just burned at an intensity. She's outrageous and brilliant and sensitive. She's a rapturous person, so (the play) is filled with emotion. It's very funny and fun.

We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities,

Because I'm everybody's mother, I'm a beloved character. It makes life so sweet for me. No matter where I go people are happy to meet me, so I try to be a nice person. I don't want to disappoint them.

Somebody said to me, "You won the Olympics, didn't you?" I said, "Yes." Wouldn't it be a shame if you didn't let yourself enjoy that.

That pesky tradesman who won't turn up: "Oh, hello, did you ever watch Happy Days?" and when they say yes, I say, "Well, I'm Mrs C." Then I get everything I want.

I like to see what's happening in town,

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.