I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

Because of the world we live in, we lock the doors in our house when we go to sleep. If you live in an apartment, if you can, you get a building that has a doorman or security.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

It's nice to leave on top.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.

I've had an absolutely magical run.

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

You should want to give something back.

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

I never had an issue with gender.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

Being a TV star is a great gift. Everyone treats you royally.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

I think I'm a good fact finder.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

People are supposed to be responsible.

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just 'does it.'

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.