Top 100 Osmond Quotes
#1. If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
Catfish Hunter
#2. I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.
Marie Osmond
#3. When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
Donny Osmond
#4. Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
Christopher Moore
#5. Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called the coolest Osmond.
Sarah Vowell
#6. You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
Marie Osmond
#7. I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
Donny Osmond
#8. There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
Marie Osmond
#9. If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
#10. You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'
Donny Osmond
#11. You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.
Marie Osmond
#12. We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
Marie Osmond
#13. 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.
Donny Osmond
#14. Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Donny Osmond
#16. The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
Donny Osmond
#17. I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me 'Person of the Week,' and like I told her, 'Diane, I love my daughter.' I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.
Marie Osmond
#18. I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
Donny Osmond
#19. You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
Donny Osmond
#20. Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.
Donny Osmond
#21. I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
Marie Osmond
#22. Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
Donny Osmond
#23. Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.
Donny Osmond
#25. My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.
Marie Osmond
#26. Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
Donny Osmond
#27. I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'
Marie Osmond
#28. I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.
Donny Osmond
#29. This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.
Marie Osmond
#30. I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.
Marie Osmond
#31. So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
Marie Osmond
#32. A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
Donny Osmond
#33. I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.
Ken Osmond
#34. What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.
Marie Osmond
#35. You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
Marie Osmond
#36. There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
Humphry Osmond
#37. I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.
Marie Osmond
#38. When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.
Donny Osmond
#39. I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.
Donny Osmond
#40. I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
Donny Osmond
#41. I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Donny Osmond
#42. You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Donny Osmond
#43. Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, 'Hey, let's just all get together and help each other be brilliant.'
Marie Osmond
#44. Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
Donny Osmond
#45. I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
Marie Osmond
#46. I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
Donny Osmond
#47. Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
Donny Osmond
#48. You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.
Donny Osmond
#49. Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down ... But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.
Donny Osmond
#50. You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.
Marie Osmond
#51. The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.
Humphry Osmond
#52. I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
Donny Osmond
#53. Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.
Marie Osmond
#54. The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
Marie Osmond
#55. I think a couple should complete one another, not compete with one another.
Marie Osmond
#56. Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
Donny Osmond
#57. I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.
Marie Osmond
#58. I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.
Marie Osmond
#59. I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
Donny Osmond
#60. I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.
Donny Osmond
#61. I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.
Ken Osmond
#62. Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
Donny Osmond
#63. I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.
Marie Osmond
#64. Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.
Donny Osmond
#65. You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'
Marie Osmond
#66. My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
Donny Osmond
#67. I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.
Donny Osmond
#68. What a cute man! Hey, I may be pregnant, but I can still see!
Marie Osmond
#69. Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
Marie Osmond
#70. I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.
Donny Osmond
#71. Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
Marie Osmond
#72. The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.
Marie Osmond
#73. I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
Donny Osmond
#75. We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.
Donny Osmond
#76. Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.
Donny Osmond
#77. Jack shook his head. 'Books. What is it with women and books? My sisters were the same. They were always buying books for boys they fancied.'
Ellie bent down and picked up the stone and put it on the table. 'It's like sending a love letter without having to write it yourself,' she said softly.
Hazel Osmond
#78. I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.
Marie Osmond
#79. I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.
Donny Osmond
#80. It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.
Ken Osmond
#81. I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.
Marie Osmond
#82. She has only one fault; too many ideas.
Henry James
#83. I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it?
Marie Osmond
#84. I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.
Marie Osmond
#85. I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.
Donny Osmond
#86. When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Marie Osmond
#87. I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.
Donny Osmond
#88. I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
Donny Osmond
#89. That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.
Marie Osmond
#90. I don't tell my children, 'If you're not good, you're going to hell.' I tell my children that God will be there for them when they struggle. That's the God I believe in.
Marie Osmond
#91. If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
Donny Osmond
#92. What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.
Gordon Osmond
#93. When you record an album and it goes platinum ... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
Donny Osmond
#94. Kon's films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.
Andrew Osmond
#95. When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.
Marie Osmond
#96. They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book into the hands of those mouths first!
Claudia Osmond
#97. When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'
Marie Osmond
#98. To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic.
Humphry Osmond
#99. Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
Donny Osmond
#100. It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
Donny Osmond
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