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I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.
There's a lot of smart women doing dumb things with their health, and I fell into that category as well.
I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.
The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.
The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.
I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.
I love to travel with my own hot sauce, and I have it in packets so I no longer have to be disturbed by TSA.
I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.
Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'
The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.
Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
One of the most comical comments that my 'Wendy' watchers said is, 'She talks too much!' Duh, I'm a talk show host!
I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.
George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"
I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.
Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.
Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.
When I travel, I love to have roll-up flats, the ones that you roll up and put in a bag, just in case your feet start hurting.
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
I'm not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day.
I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.
I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.
I didn't ask to be a role model. I don't like that responsibility. But if you see something in me that you really adore, thank you.
I love 'Real Housewives.' I love 'Love & Hip Hop.' I love HGTV. I love a good Guy Fieri marathon on Food Network. I like comfort TV.
Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.
There's no worse way to insult a woman than by saying she looks like a man, but once a woman gets over that, there is no stronger woman.
The responsibility that I ultimately feel to the audience is to entertain, maybe enlighten, and help you take your mind off messy things.
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.
I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.
I don't chill out to music. When I get home, there's no music playing. Every TV is set on a different channel. I'm keeping up with the shows.
I was very conscious of my upper arms. I never wore sleeveless. I always wore a cardigan. I saw myself being super conscious of my appearance.
Yes, I wear caramel-colored Nude Barre fishnets August through June. Especially with shorter dresses, at age 48, they give my legs a nice finish.
My weight was a huge issue as a young person. For my mother, for my father, and for my siblings... nobody in my family is overweight. And here I come.
I don't want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.
Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.
There's some really disgusting places out there who just throw some lentil together and think that just because you don't eat meat, you're gonna eat this slop.
I didn't grow up the popular girl or the popular cheerleader. I've never been to a prom, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, so I'm used to being on this side of life.
I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.
The only thing urban about me is the parties. I have almost always been a suburbanite. I got a car for my graduation. I want to have a manicured lawn and have my son go to a good college.
People have accused me of bleaching my skin, of getting a nose job. They squint at my mom, like, 'I didn't know Wendy was Asian.' I am black all day, honey pie. I am black and very proud.
Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!
You need more than a year to grow on somebody, and it's very intimate being invited into people's homes every day. Once that trust is built, then you're like that old friend. That's the sweet spot.
The reason that it's so easy to go out there and be me - warts and all, critics and everything - is because my family and my career are the only two things that really matter in the big circle of life.
Doing the show. That 10 AM feeling when the doors open up. Forget about it! Also, my son coming home with a respectable grade on something that I know he's worked hard on. And good health excites me, too.
People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It's fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I'm a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.
I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.