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Richard Simmons

Richard Simmons Books

Television actor

Richard Simmons is an American television actor, best known for his role in the popular TV show 'The Richard Simmons Show'. He is beloved by audiences for his unique comedic style and exaggerated performances.

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“It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.”

People Fun Issues Nice

Author:Richard Simmons

“Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.”

School Right Now Recess

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“If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.”

Ifs Want Dies Class Middle

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“For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.”

Done Next House Prayer Minutes One Day Blessing Work Out Shoulders Tone Chests Next Day Workout Get It Done Cardio My Blessing Biceps Triceps

Author:Richard Simmons

“If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?”

Ifs Feels Helping Care Take Care Helping Others Feel Good

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“If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!”

Ifs World Reason Whole Problem Stars Wings Shining Fallen Other Worlds Shining Star Money Problem

Author:Richard Simmons

“The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.”

Real Pride Longevity Weight Loss

Author:Richard Simmons

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

Book Different Reading Father Lost Causes Sadness Taste Six Eating Agree Cooking Cooks Obsessed Kitchen Seconds Recipes Tasting Eating Food Happiness Sadness

Author:Richard Simmons

“There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.”

Thinking Littles I Can House Watches Lists Bars Candy Chips Potatoes Peanuts Calories Peanut Butter Potato Chips Candy Bar

Author:Richard Simmons

“I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.”

Years Stills Three Born Shoes Legs Three Years Crippled Three Year Olds

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“Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.”

Author:Richard Simmons

“You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!”

Ifs Knows Giving Home Parent Driving Boat Giving Back Benz Mercedes Benz

Author:Richard Simmons

“Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.”

Firsts Soul Morning Grace Blessing Singing Every Morning My Blessing Morning After

Author:Richard Simmons

“I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.”

Loses Terrible Weight Diets Thirty Desperate Throwing Pills Terrible Things Lose Weight Throwing Up Desperate Measures

Author:Richard Simmons

“If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it. You can't buy it, you can't rent it. You have to earn it. My formula has always been love yourself, move your body, watch your portions. And it sounds so easy, but it is not.”

Ifs Want Body Moving Easy Sound Watches Love You Your Body Formulas Love Yourself Portions

Author:Richard Simmons

“I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.”

Kind House Collections Museums Dolls One Of A Kind

Author:Richard Simmons

“I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.”

People Ifs World Two Certain Answers Negative Say Anything

Author:Richard Simmons

“I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.”

Needs Done Laughing Wind Boxes Clown Good Laugh

Author:Richard Simmons

“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.”

Feels Trying Feel Better Oysters Stop Trying

Author:Richard Simmons

“Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.”

Way Body Healthy Knees Aggressive Workout Diabetes

Author:Richard Simmons

“My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.”

People Way Trying Stories Laughing Cry Emotional Listening Court Who I Am My Way Sensitive Clown Making People Laugh Jester Court Jester

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“For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.”

People Trying Past Forgiving Therapy Get Back Digging Forgive Yourself Relics

Author:Richard Simmons

“I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.”

Thinking Needs Trying Body Prove Sense Of Humor Kinder

Author:Richard Simmons

“What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.”

Ifs Mind Important Hands Running Can Do Walks Attitude Exercise Important Things Chairs What If Flexible Up And Down Mental Attitude Sedentary

Author:Richard Simmons

“Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.”

Mind Body Night Hours Sleep Watches Minutes Tvs Bed Eight Critical Nine Slow Down Disturbing Invigorating

Author:Richard Simmons

“I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.”

Author:Richard Simmons

“I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.”

Children School Active Physically Active

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“Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.”

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“I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”

Way Children Country Earth Changed Terrible Adults Leaving Treated Usa Obese

Author:Richard Simmons

“Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.”

Men Felt Letters Discrimination 80s Overweight

Author:Richard Simmons

“I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.”

Thinking Should Writing Age Autobiography

Author:Richard Simmons

“My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.”

Nicknames Jukebox

Author:Richard Simmons

“If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.”

Ifs I Can Song Spells

Author:Richard Simmons

“When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.”

Wife Kings Court Cooks Jester Court Jester

Author:Richard Simmons

“I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.”

People Laughing Court Clown Making People Laugh Jester Court Jester

Author:Richard Simmons

“I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.”

Author:Richard Simmons

“That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.”

People Thinking World Jobs Walks Focus Majority Work Out Ruins Sour New You

Author:Richard Simmons

“After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.”

People Trying Walks Dog Weight Unhappy Pet Rainbow My Dog Make Me Happy

Author:Richard Simmons

“My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.”

Long Running Kids Father Loses Dollars Pounds Long Runs

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.”

Children Use Dies Water Chickens Vegetables New Orleans Potatoes Sauce Coffins Oysters Fried Food

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.”

Body Kids Faces Overweight

Author:Richard Simmons

“When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.”

Ifs I Can Five Four Gains Weight Stress Add Careful Knees Pounds Portions Workout Because I Can Overweight

Author:Richard Simmons

“Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."”

Years Home School Three Parent Hours Streets Sells Corners Eight After School Street Corners

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“All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Long Young Dies Eating Haunting

Author:Richard Simmons

“After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.”

Two Lost Water Half Months Eating Throwing Lettuce Throwing Up

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“When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.”

Author:Richard Simmons

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1948
Known for: Television actor
Quotes: 153

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