Jenny McCarthy

“I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.”

“It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.”

“Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.”

“When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.”

“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”

“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?”

“The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.”

“Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.”

“If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.”

“So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.”

“I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.”

“When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.”

“It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.”

“People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.”

“The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.”

“I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.”

“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.”

“When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.”

“Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.”

“You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.”