Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli: (About maintaining her weight loss) I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

Valerie Bertinelli: When I'm happy with myself, he's happiest. But he likes me... firm.

Valerie Bertinelli: When I got too heavy, he would say, Honey, lose weight. Then when I got too thin, he said, I don't like making love with you, you've got to gain some weight.

Valerie Bertinelli: When he told me he loved me, his defenses were down and I took advantage of him.

Valerie Bertinelli: When Ed became happy and more independent, Dave couldn't control him anymore. Dave likes control.

Valerie Bertinelli: We didn't go to bed together till a month after we met. He wouldn't let me go to bed with him. I had wanted to, but he'd say, No. I want to know who you are first.

Valerie Bertinelli: Valerie Van Halen is such a pretty name. All my credit cards, my driver's license, everything has Van Halen on it.

Valerie Bertinelli: The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

Valerie Bertinelli: Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

Valerie Bertinelli: Out-and-out nudity, I'm too uncomfortable doing it, and I don't think you need it.

Valerie Bertinelli: One Day at a Time was just given to me.

Valerie Bertinelli: Now, I don't know how the teenagers do it; have all of these people follow them around and write everything that they ever do and don't do.

Valerie Bertinelli: My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

Valerie Bertinelli: Looking back, I didn't realize how groundbreaking the show was when it first came out.

Valerie Bertinelli: It's a lot more fun in bed if you have something on. It's sexier to have to get around the clothes.

Valerie Bertinelli: In TV, people do take me seriously. They know they're going to get good numbers. I just have to say, Give me this, and they'll practically do it.

Valerie Bertinelli: I've had stories made up about me.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm the kind of person who clams up and holds it all inside; he's the type who gets it out and says what he feels. He's brutally honest.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm proud of what I did, like when I was scared to do a scene and I got through it and I was good.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm not going to tell these actresses they stink.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm just not a confident person.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm a good girl. I am, pretty much.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'd like to have four kids. Ed says he wants a full band.

Valerie Bertinelli: I guess you want what you can't have.

Valerie Bertinelli: I don't think about acting a lot.

Valerie Bertinelli: I didn't know how to wear a tampon, and I thought that if I wasn't a virgin, maybe they'd fit better.

Valerie Bertinelli: Honesty is very sexy.

Valerie Bertinelli: For a man to say I love you, crying, it's like, God, it was really sweet.

Valerie Bertinelli: I've asked him to leave, but he says, Absolutely not. You're stuck with me. So there.

Valerie Bertinelli: I've gone to interviews and read for a role, and it's gone to the wire, and then the actress that they pick, she's a film actress and I'm a TV actress.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm the kind of person who clams up and holds it all inside; he's the type who gets it out and says what he feels. He's brutally honest.

Valerie Bertinelli: I'm proud of what I did, like when I was scared to do a scene and I got through it and I was good.

Valerie Bertinelli: I wasn't being followed everywhere. My celebrity, for as big as it was at that time, it was a little bit safer.

Valerie Bertinelli: I think I'm a much better person inside than I used to be.

Valerie Bertinelli: I think Dave was jealous that Ed had fallen in love and was happy. Dave tended to keep Ed in a miserable place and liked him there because he could control him that way.

Valerie Bertinelli: I see how raw I was and how green I was. But I think, Oh, what a cute little girl. But that's about it.

Valerie Bertinelli: I run into Bonnie, I'll run into Mac. But it's been a good 20 years since we've all four been in a room together.

Valerie Bertinelli: I love the grocery store! Especially when Ed and I go together. I feel like this little married woman, like I'm playing house or something.

Valerie Bertinelli: I like being a married woman and I like the man I'm married to.

Valerie Bertinelli: I knew I was feeling something very different for this man. We were in Phoenix and we'd known each other a month. Ed had just won best rock guitarist in Guitar Player magazine for the fourth time in a row.

Valerie Bertinelli: I had a very good family that really protected me from everything, and it was a different era.

Valerie Bertinelli: I had a miscarriage. It wasn't the easiest thing to deal with. But nobody knew I was pregnant.

Valerie Bertinelli: I felt like I was 15 all over again. I wanted their approval and I wanted to be the good girl again.

Valerie Bertinelli: I don't think I was quite aware of what was really going on in my life.

Valerie Bertinelli: I don't know all of the misconceptions that are out there. I try not to listen.

Valerie Bertinelli: I do think Ed smokes too many cigarettes, and he does drink too much sometimes.

Valerie Bertinelli: Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

Valerie Bertinelli: Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there-not forced.

Valerie Bertinelli: Ed has a bigger heart than I do. I won't forgive Dave for what he did to the man I love. Ed will. I like revenge, Ed doesn't.

Valerie Bertinelli: Beautiful? No. That's why I'm doing this role in I'll Take Manhattan. I was getting the feeling that people didn't think I was pretty any longer.