Ripa's Quotes

#1. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

Ellie Kemper

#2. I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

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#3. Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

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#4. I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

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#5. I'm not militant about anything. If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some. If I'm in the mood for something, I'll have it. I don't obsess about anything. I could have three or four "cheat days" in a week and then not have dessert for another three months.

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#6. I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

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#7. I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

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#8. Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

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#9. I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

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#10. I'm like any working mom.

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#11. If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

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#12. I get paid to make out with the hunks!

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#13. My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

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#14. If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

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#15. When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

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#16. Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

Mark Consuelos

#17. I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

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#18. Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

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#19. If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

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#20. I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

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#21. I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

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#22. I treat my cheeks like breasts in a push-up bra. I just reach down in there, lift them up and push them together. And they'll stay put if the jeans are tight enough.

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#23. I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

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#24. I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

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#25. In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

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#26. Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

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#27. It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

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#28. There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

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#29. Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.

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#30. When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

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#31. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

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#32. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

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#33. I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

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#34. I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

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#35. If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

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#36. There's no such thing as an uber-mom.

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#37. I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

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