Courtney Thorne Smith Quotes

• There’s so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they’re lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.

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• I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn’t be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they’re working. I thrive when I’m hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

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• I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I’d adopt.

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• A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they’re so afraid they’ll gain weight if they stop, and it’s especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you’re not exercising so much, you don’t have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.

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• Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I’m over that.

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• I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she’ll do what I did.

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• I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

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• I always want to look like myself – that’s key for me. I don’t want to look like a different person, I don’t want my face frozen.

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• If it’s not working before you get married, marriage isn’t going to fix it.

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• You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

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• To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight – and thank God for that.

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  Tags in Reality, Honest, Important

• One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don’t know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

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• It’s incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

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• You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I’m so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

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Courtney Thorne Smith (14)

Birth:	8th November, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Courtney Thorne Smith was born in San Francisco, California. She is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl in According to Jim, and her recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy. In 1990, she was featured in six episodes of L.A. Law as Laker Girl Kimberly Dugan. On September 18, 2007, Thorne-Smith's novel, Outside In, was published by Broadway Books in New York.

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