Judy Sheindlin
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.
Uh' is not an answer.
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.
Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
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'm not a good interviewer.
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 think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.
In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.
I don't read bad mail. I don't save mail. I'm too old to read negative things.
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 was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'
All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.
I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.
The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.
If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.
While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort.
I don't like to watch train wrecks.
Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.
I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.
I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.
I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.
Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.
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.
When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refrigerator, mail done so that I can better negotiate what will await me.
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.
When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.
If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memoryCollection: Memories
If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.Collection: Make Sense
I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distressCollection: Emotional