Kirstie Alley Quotes

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

Smile, don’t frown. Look up don’t look down. Believe in yourself Don’t let yourself go. Just be who you are. And let your live flow.

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

You are not in business to be popular.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.

I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to fight about him.He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

I stay positive because it's the only way to live. When I play ball, I play hardball.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

I had seen Cheers twice, I think. Ted [Danson] had so much hair in his widow's peak that I remember thinking, "That dude looks like Eddie Munster."

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.