I’ll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I’d love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my – I would almost probably faint. Richard Simmons Read Quote
How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told – as a children been told that they’re no good, that they’re never going to be anything else. Richard Simmons Read Quote
When I go to teach, that’s not my workout. It’s my show. I’m 134 pounds – I’m a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can’t stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts! Richard Simmons Read Quote
In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester. Richard Simmons Read Quote
Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them. Richard Simmons Read Quote
There are sacrifices you have to make. I don’t have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people. Richard Simmons Read Quote
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I’d binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po’ boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I’d always turn to food. Richard Simmons Read Quote
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that’s who I am. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery, and they still have to work out. If you don’t work out and eat healthy, you’ll look like a melted candle. Richard Simmons Read Quote
Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn’t have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much. Richard Simmons Read Quote
Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times. Richard Simmons Read Quote
