Quotes from Laurie David

You don't necessarily know you're consuming sugar when you're using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It's added to all these foods.

Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.

A bald man driving a hybrid is a very sexy thing.

There was no social media really when 'Inconvenient Truth' came out. I wish we had Twitter and the power of that to help get the word out.

If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.

Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.

I was almost surprised to realize that I had actually done something right as a parent by insisting on regular family dinners.

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

When I was a little kid - and I don't know why - I was obsessed with littering. I'd yell at people in their cars if I saw someone throw paper or a cup out of their window.

If you're cooking at home, you'll eat healthier, and when you add family and friends into the mix, it enriches your social life, too.

They are very different in terms of the solution. Where 'An Inconvenient Truth,' you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with 'Fed Up' you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.

Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn't invited to! The worst is the Twitpic - people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you're not there.

Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it's the most important activity you can do as a family.

Any time you put people in a room with Bill McDonough, they leave there blown away, their mouths agape. I had a similar feeling when I first met Al Gore.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.

So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.

Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, 'I have to fight carbon emissions.'

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.