Happy Birthday Kirstie Alley!

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

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. 

When I play ball, I play hardball.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness. 

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter. 

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

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

When I'm at my best, I'm wearing a 6. When you see yourself pick out the 6... you want to wear the tags on the outside of your clothes.

When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.

Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

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.

The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.

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

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

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.

If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat.

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.

I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.

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

I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

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

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

It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and we'd have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.

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.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be. 

You're not going to live your life unscathed.