Marie Helvin Quotes

The dieting wars have got to stop.

If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.

I've never been on a fad diet.

I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.

My mother always wants me to put me on a diet.

I've never been on a diet and never will.

I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I have been on a diet since 1962.

I feel like I am always battling to keep my weight down.

I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering dropped off delicious food at my trailer.

For me, it's all about healthy eating and working out. If I have to look slim for a bikini, then I will eat lots more salad and fruit, which are low in calories and don't make you look bloated.

I cannot make 135 pounds healthily.

Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

I could stand to lose some weight.

I struggle with my weight like it's my job.