Quotes from Star Jones

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

First of all, Bill Clinton was an extremely good president and more importantly, the country was in a very good position when he actually walked away.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.