Quotes from Richard Simmons

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

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

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery, and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!

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

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

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

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

For 40 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.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I think it is very important that you like yourself for who you are and not want to look like anyone else. You also have to understand, many people have had cosmetic surgeries in order to look the way they look. So why look like them when you can just look like you? And there is nothing wrong with looking like you.

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