Kirstie Alley quotes:

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

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

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

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.

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.

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

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

When I play ball, I play hardball.

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.

People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.

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

I've known Prince for many years - I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video - and Kirstie [Alley] and I used to fight about him.He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous.

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 am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

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 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.

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

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.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had seen Cheers twice, I think. Ted [Danson] had so much hair in his widow's peak that I remember thinking, "That dude looks like Eddie Munster."

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

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.

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

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

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

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

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

To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.

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

You are not in business to be popular.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.