Quotes from Richard Simmons

For many 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.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

I'll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I'd love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my - I would almost probably faint.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

I consider myself a court jester - motivator.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

There are sacrifices you have to make. I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.