Star Jones Quotes


"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."
- Star Jones
(Related: Dad, Baby, Words)

"I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't."
- Star Jones
(Related: Years)

"No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all."
- Star Jones
(Related: Time, Exercise, Want)

"You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters."
- Star Jones
(Related: Financial, Strength, Rest, Spiritual)

"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."
- Star Jones
"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."
- Star Jones
(Related: Words)

"We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family."
- Star Jones
(Related: Family, Fight, May)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: Time, Being, Country)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: World)

"Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public."
- Star Jones
(Related: God, Public)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: Change, Choices, Day)

"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."
- Star Jones
(Related: Compassion, Compromise, Patience)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: Family, Benefits, Word)

"Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds."
- Star Jones
(Related: Time, Years)

"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."
- Star Jones
(Related: Light, Now, Television)

"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."
- Star Jones
(Related: Nation, Seasons, Woman)

"I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds."
- Star Jones
(Related: Journey, Losing, Weight)

"I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway."
- Star Jones
(Related: People, Majority, President)

"I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work."
- Star Jones
(Related: Work, Nothing)

"I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying."
- Star Jones
(Related: Dying)

"I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me."
- Star Jones
(Related: Husband)

"Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences."
- Star Jones
(Related: Women)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: Crisis, Saying)

"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."
- Star Jones
(Related: Health, Work, Control, Honesty)

"I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy."
- Star Jones
(Related: People, Choice, Want)

"I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade."
- Star Jones
(Related: Wedding, Drama, Want)

"I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney."
- Star Jones
"I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married."
- Star Jones
(Related: Life, Wife, Now, Television)

"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food."
- Star Jones
(Related: Food, Forget, Want)