J. K. Simmons Quotes

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.

If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.