Kirstie Alley famous quotes

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.
-- Kirstie Alley

#More To Life #Fats

I had seen Cheers twice, I think. Ted [Danson] had so much hair in his widow's peak that I remember thinking, "That dude looks like Eddie Munster."
-- Kirstie Alley

#Cheer #Thinking #Hair

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Change #Fun #Eye

I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Self #Littles #Loser

Smile, don’t frown. Look up don’t look down. Believe in yourself Don’t let yourself go. Just be who you are. And let your live flow.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Believe #Be Who You Are #Looks

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Heart #Night #Broken

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Kids #Parent #Matter

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Shy #Littles #Wanted

I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to fight about him.He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Song #Fighting #Years

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Mother #Home #Kids

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Class #Acting #Busy

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Gusto #Half #Marriage Love

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'
-- Kirstie Alley

#Tired #Size #Fats

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Alcohol #Drug #Culture

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Born #Response #Audience

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Helping Others #Half #Helping

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.
-- Kirstie Alley

#People

I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Morning #Stars #Night

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Loss #Weight #Week

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Careers #Energy #Actresses

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Chinese #Sugar #Demon

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Taken #Eye #Today

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Children #Thinking #People

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Pot

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Believe #Psychotic #Psychiatry

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Believe #Eating Disorder #Screw Ups

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Birthday #Party #Pumpkin

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Attitude #Stupid #Thinking

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Balls #Gone #Bowling

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Spiritual #Matter #Sides

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
-- Kirstie Alley

#Strong #Sorry #Passion

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Long #Body #Arms

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Responsibility #Ice Cream #Eating

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Desperate

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Sex #Thinking #Care

I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Fall #Fall Back #Needed

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Depression #People #Reason

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Energy #Looks #Skinny

When I play ball, I play hardball.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Play #Balls

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Spiritual #Men #People

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Thinking #Parent #Coke

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Years #Age #Be Good

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?
-- Kirstie Alley

#People #Goal #Choices

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!
-- Kirstie Alley

#Animal #Ideas #People

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Stupid #Jenny #Reason

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Lying #Years #Tabloids

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Believe #Pounds #Body

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Agency #Waiting #Agents

You're not going to live your life unscathed.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Life Lesson #Live Your Life

You are not in business to be popular.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Memorable

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Heart #Forever #Trying

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Reason #Violent #Plastic

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.
-- Kirstie Alley

#Would Be #Honest #Scientology

People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.
-- Kirstie Alley

#People #Jenny #Wells