Valerie Bertinelli Quotes

Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

I have such a sweet tooth, which is a nightmare when you're trying to be good.

If anybody tells me to stop eating chocolates or pizzas, I won't be able to do it.

Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

It is hard because I love Cornettos, so that will always be a weakness, and I've realised that bread is my nemesis. I believe bread has been sent to destroy me to the core.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.

I try everything in moderation, but listen, if I'm at some great Italian restaurant and they bring out the wonderful bread and butter, I'm the first one to dive in the basket.

Generally I try to be as healthy as possible, but it's hard to be on set because anything and everything is available to you. I'm healthy half the time, and half the time I'm like, 'Sure let me go back and see whatever snack they have laid out.'

I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

Food is my drug of choice.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.