Ruby Quotes

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

I want us all to get healthier, but also to live life to the fullest along the way. I want people to live their lives no matter what.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

I can only strive for what is important

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

I need them and they need me to need them

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

I have only been acting since I was about eighteen. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't think there is anything else I could do.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

I refuse to allow people to stop me from living and enjoying my life.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I am a girl who loves life and loves people and I find that in this life there are more good people than bad and that is who I choose to surround myself with.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.

The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.

There is more weight to be lost and so many more things I need to learn and conquer.

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

What once made you safe now drives you insane.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Am I still married to a cat? (Adrian)

Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.