Tracey Gold Quotes

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Life comes full circle.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I'll always have a baby face.