Star Jones's Quotes

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.