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.

You are not in business to be popular.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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!

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

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.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

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

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

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."

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.

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

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.

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

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

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

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.

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.

I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

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

You're not going to live your life unscathed.