Quotes from Kelly Ripa

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

I'm like any working mom.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.