Bertinelli Quotes & Sayings

Leap...and the net will follow — Valerie Bertinelli

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one! — Valerie Bertinelli

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy. — Valerie Bertinelli

I actually don't care about his movies that much. I just want to twang that thong like a big elastic band. — Valerie Bertinelli

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? — Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. — Valerie Bertinelli

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going. — Valerie Bertinelli

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you! — Valerie Bertinelli

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall. — Valerie Bertinelli

When faced with the choice, choose happy — Valerie Bertinelli

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day. — Valerie Bertinelli

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. — Valerie Bertinelli

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe. — Valerie Bertinelli

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. — Valerie Bertinelli

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that. — Valerie Bertinelli

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track. — Valerie Bertinelli

Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction. — Valerie Bertinelli

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress. — Valerie Bertinelli

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced. — Valerie Bertinelli

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. — Valerie Bertinelli

Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight ... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes. — Valerie Bertinelli

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it. — Betty White

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds. — Valerie Bertinelli

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either. — Valerie Bertinelli

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair. — Valerie Bertinelli

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.' — Betty White

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through. — Valerie Bertinelli

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap. — Valerie Bertinelli

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home. — Valerie Bertinelli

I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done. — Valerie Bertinelli

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes! — Valerie Bertinelli

My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the case I'd like everyone to pop open their Diet Coke cans and turn to page 37 of their People Magazines. In this holy scripture, we read the parable of Ms. Valerie Bertinelli. — Maria Bamford

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of? — Valerie Bertinelli

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special. — Valerie Bertinelli

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size. — Valerie Bertinelli

Honesty is very sexy. — Valerie Bertinelli

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest. — Valerie Bertinelli

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight. — Valerie Bertinelli

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child. — Valerie Bertinelli

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean. — Valerie Bertinelli

As a teenager, I was an enormous fan of Valerie Bertinelli's hair. — Jennifer Aniston