Explore Quotes by Richard Simmons

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.

Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.