Star Jones

“One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.”

“Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.”

“I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.”

“I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.”

“The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.”

“Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.”

“And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.”

“No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.”

“I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.”

“This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.”

“My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.”

“I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.”

“I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.”

“I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.”

“In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.”

“No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.”

“Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.”

“We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.”

“Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.”

“I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.”