Kelly Ripa Quotations

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

I think children are like pancakes: You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time. I do it more for my insides than my outside, but the outside gets a nice benefit, too. I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise. And I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of,

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

Since we're talking about scandals, I'd like to point out that Regis is not fired, he's just on special assignment. Yeah. Yeah, and we love each other. It is love. It is love.

Regis is not fired. He's just on special assignment. And we love each other.

I would love to have another one, but I think we are done because we are so overwhelmed and if I have any more crow's feet, I am going to actually turn into a crow.

You know we grope differently on set than we do in real life. Our onset groping is really much more disgusting than our real-life groping.

When I get close to crossing that line or when I go over it, I get 'the look' from Regis,

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I go, 'Wait a minute! Oh my gosh, you guys! Calm down! You'll forget in three days what you were fighting about. I promise. So just let it marinate a little bit-that's my best love advice.

Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

I'm not militant about anything. If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some. If I'm in the mood for something, I'll have it. I don't obsess about anything. I could have three or four "cheat days" in a week and then not have dessert for another three months.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

If I've had a bad day, if I'm feeling stressed out, if I'm feeling overwhelmed - it takes it all away. It's my antidote for everything. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

I treat my cheeks like breasts in a push-up bra. I just reach down in there, lift them up and push them together. And they'll stay put if the jeans are tight enough.