Judy Sheindlin

“Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.”

“I'm not a good interviewer.”

“I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.”

“If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.”

“The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.”

“Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.”

“I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'”

“I'm an entertainer, and I'm paid as an entertainer.”

“Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.”

“Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.”

“I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.”

“So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.”

“We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.”

“Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.”

“I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.”

“I eat liars for breakfast.”

“I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.”

“I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'”

“A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.”

“I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.”