Best Quotes of the Week

"I'm doing this myself - I'm listening to Prince. He said, 'Toni, you have to do it yourself. I mean record companies are great, but the new movement is Internet and putting it out on digital and you don't really need them for that.' So wish me luck, I'm going out here on a limb!"
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"We’re adding more color to our life. Kendra on Top, is going to me more of a happier place to go on your TV. It’s like Sex in the City with a lot of my girlfriends, but it’s also about my family. How I have a family, but I am a business woman, but I still have a social life and a sex life.""You know how salons are. Salons are very colorful, you work with a bunch of artistic people. Sometimes you have drama and you have people being competitive. It’s just an all around salon.""That’s what I love about the salon. Strong relationships with co-workers like Anthony and Dontay make it feel like more than just work.""Happy Birthday 2 the greatest woman I've ever known! Lil Hank & I will forever love you @KendraWilkinson! We r blessed to call u mom & wife!""We're like this big family that is just at each other's necks all the time and because we're in such tight corners in a salon everyday and dealing with high-end clientele. So it gets really stressful sometimes.""Every now and then, I’ll think to myself, ‘Am I living the best life? Could I have more? Being married -- Is this what I always dreamed of having?’ Yes, this is where I truly want to be. This is the happiest I’ve ever been and ever will be.""Drama at salons, there’s no way around it, there’s going to be drama. Stylists have drama, and people need to see that. But you’re going to see a lot of me talking about my business and how I treat my business."
"No. 1, I'm a businesswoman, and when you said role-model, I'll take a little bit of that, only because I'm a producer as well. So another responsibility is to put out positive television and positive things...""That's a big thing about the show this year. People get to see what happens when an NFL player transitions and getting into the hosting, acting and also the entrepreneurial things, I've got a few business adventures I'm getting involved in.""Some people only want your money and at the end of the day. Kim just wants you to have great hair.""We just felt it was necessary to show us as sisters living different lifestyles. We felt it was important to have an honest show that women can relate to and learn from. I can only speak for our show, though. We’re a family show; it’s not like we’re girlfriends.""I grew up in a hair salon. I was shampooing when I was 15, 16, helping out my mom. We're the best of friends, but if I want to do a curl this way, she thinks it should be that way.""Now we're finally stable and settled and really opening up the doors to our home for WE tv. I think this new show is going to be so inspirational and so modern. We represent the modern family. It's a very positive feel versus the past's negative, depressed kind of feel.""Hearing my husband say he’s not as happy as he has been in the past doesn’t worry me, but let’s me know I have to make him a priority and remind him that he is my dude!!! Marriage is about putting in work, and Teddy & I are committed to doing that and committed to each other."
"L.A. Hair is about my salon, Kimble Hair Studio in Los Angeles. My mom works there with me -- it’s about our working and personal relationship. There are also five other stylists and we all have personalities, so there’s a little drama. You’ll get to see me work with my celebrity clients on location at different events (music videos, movies...).""There's no other man that I would want my son to be like. That means respecting women, saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you,’ and of course being a damn great athlete!""The connection I share with each and every one of my brides is what always keeps me inspired.""We’re the same, now people get to know who we are. We don’t have a spiritual answer for everything. I was on Twitter -- I’ve stopped since -- and tweeted that I’m not having a good day. Then people sent all these messages like ‘You can make it, hold on.’ I’m like, ‘I know that, I’m just having a bad day and I’m allowed to say that!’""Long day of shooting @KendraOnTop but we are getting good stuff. Working hard for you guys hahaha.""Fortunately or unfortunately, there’s enough real-life drama so we didn’t have to trump up or exaggerate anything for the show. We’re real sisters and sisters get into it. We’re also in business and also have lives and were both pregnant on the show. There were hormones flying everywhere so we didn’t have to fake it.""My husband's from L.A., her husband's from Chicago, we started dating them a year apart. And they're not related at all. Our first date was two days apart; our first daughter was born a year apart; our sons six months apart; these kids were six months apart… we're just meant to be."
"Inner beauty is being confident and being self aware. You have to project it out and make sure that everybody can see the lightness of you.""Now that we are on WE, there's going to be even more that is going to be put out there! The family is finally settled into our house, little Hank has grown so much and the show is going to allow people to see some of the biggest milestones in his life, and as for me, WE will be showing my first steps of moving on from the NFL. A lot of big things happening in our lives!!""The show is really, really, really honest. There are moments when I don't look good and there are moments that Kurt doesn't look good -- there are those moments when you watch it back and you can't believe you said something, but you're incredibly happy you said it at the same time because it shows the real you. It shows you're not monitoring what you're saying in order to make an audience like you.""You got to suss him out. See what he’s like… Do you have some shift eyes? Do you know how to shake somebody’s hand? Are you scary?""It is very important because we live in a world where we’re taught that being black is not beautiful. Now we have finally realized that we’re important as well because we come in all color shades, shapes and sizes, and we're accomplishing everything that people denied us for many years.""As far as family is concerned doing Braxton Family Values has made us realize that we had issues (LOL) that were unspoken or swept under the rug and we were really forced to deal with them.""Really, we just are who we are […] and you'll get a lot of more truth of who we are […] as artists, who we are as sisters, who we are as mothers, who we are as wives. ">
“I’m a woman now and it is time to break out of that shell and have fun and show everyone that it is okay to be a working mom and wife and still step out and be hot...It’s like the book '50 Shades of Grey,' I think my show has a similar theme to that.""Your life does change to a certain degree, however, you also have to remember it is because of the fans that you've reached a certain gold status so you can't forget where you come from at the same time. So you have to try to find a happy balance.""I speak my truth. I used to be the one who would think my truth needs to be everybody's truth. But that's not where I am. I am grown up enough to know what works for me don't have to work for everybody. I try to be true to who I am and how I am. I don't like fake-ness, because I do ME much better.""I think it's hard for an actor to do a reality show and try to continue acting. I think that's difficult. It's my ultimate goal, but this came up at a time in my life where I felt that it was beneficial for me to get some things off my chest, to share myself with my fans, even with people who aren't my fans. But it's not my career, it's not what I wake up to do every single day.""People always ask us how do we balance being moms and sisters being business partners, and the music and making it all make sense, so we've decided to let a few cameras in our lives and let people see it.""It's going to be about my life, but as everybody knows, my life changes in the blink of any eye. I love to take my fans on that journey. I don't bulls***. I have nohting to hide. I think my show works because I show the world I'm not perfect. That's my goal: to show the imperfections of life and how we deal with them.""They don't consider that I have grown up and that there is a softer, more vulnerable side. They don't consider what was behind some of the antics when I was young. I'm not the same person as when I was younger, when some of the crazier stuff happened. Which, by today's standards, were incredibly tame."
"They're a part of my life. It's not about erasing them. But this is just a different side of me, more often.""When you cut us, we all bleed Atkins. Tread lightly. I can rip my sister up, but you cannot.""It's documenting and sort of doing a reality show based on actual truth and making it very authentic, which not a lot of them out there are and I can honestly say that ours is. I think there is something a little bit rewarding in that and relatable in just saying "Hey, this is my life.""I’ve been pregnant twice since we started Mary Mary, and both times I’ve worked well into the pregnancies. That’s how I do. I’m a hard worker, and I balance work with being a wife and a mother.""Twelve is the number because you know you're going to have the holidays eventually with your family. Let me give you a little tip: do thirteen because someone is going to break something - probably me by the way!""It would be horrible to cancel, but it would be more horrible to endanger your health and the baby’s health.”“I can’t think of a more uncomfortable conversation to have. I’d rather have my fingernails pulled out one by one, than talk to Tina Campbell about her weight.”
"A lot of people think it's just them that go through all of the stress of planning a wedding, and the bride and the groom start fighting and it's all of this turmoil and meltdowns and everything else. So I was like, let's just document this experience so that women out there know that it's just not them - everybody goes through that.""I'm doing this myself - I'm listening to Prince. He said, 'Toni, you have to do it yourself. I mean record companies are great, but the new movement is Internet and putting it out on digital and you don't really need them for that.' So wish me luck, I'm going out here on a limb!"“We’re sisters, a group still in business when most of the groups that started off in 2000, they couldn’t do it because they can’t deal with each other. And we’re family, and we like each other even when we don’t like each other. That’s good for you to see.”"I have no message for the haters! Like what are you talking about? Hate on this (points to body) for what?! Like have several - sit in all the seats in the STAPLES Center!""I am so excited about being able to let my love show, my love for my husband, my love for my family, how challenging it is to take the Mary Mary hat — or wig off — and come home and just be Warren’s wife and [my children’s] mother. I cannot go out and live and love the whole world and then when I come home, and my family is like, 'Hi what about us?'""First of all, jealousy has never been a part of our vocabulary. My mother never raised us to be jealous of each other."“They were both changed by the power of the love of Jesus. So, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, love can change your life.”
"It's about us being regular, not how spiritual we are. We're women first, you know, we're just normal human beings first, so it's important to show that.""We feel like there's so much of our lives that reflect the regular woman. From being moms to women, women of color who are business women, sisters, and trying to make it all work and kind of find our way through the chaos with our fake being the source of it all. We feel like it can kind of be a help for some people to see."“The only way to get over one man, Melissa, is to get under another!"“Let's concentrate on the bachelorette party. You heard of Ocean's 11? Tonight is going to be The River's Seven.""You can take it and play with it and have fun with it. I'm OK with it 'cuz I'm a free person, I'm open. That's the fun part of it, but the real meaning is where my life is now.""Is she beat...to capacity?!"“Erica and Tina are best friends and worst enemies. That's what we are. Don't nobody love Erica like I love her. And don't nobody love me like Erica loves me.”
“The best advice I can give to anyone trying to start in this industry is even if you have to fake it – you have to fake it like a superstar. And if you don't believe in yourself, no one ever will.”“When Snooki [from 'Jersey Shore'] said she was pregnant, Rick Santorum said he now believed in abortion. That really threw me. I thought, this is a big man who can change his views.”“I play a lot of Wii Fitness and Let's Dance 3. Um and I go back to dance class so when I go and do ballet and everything like that it makes your butt look like a horse, so I'm loving it!”“[Berda] wants a Halloween wedding because it's her favorite holiday. It's what every little girl dreams of when they grow up. Skeletons and masks, pumpkins galore!”“My mom gets very shy and nervous and doesn't want to disappoint. So, it sort of becomes this...this circle where she's like 'Well then I shouldn't say anything because what if they think I'm not funny or what if they think I'm not smart!'”“Joan shows up at 5 a.m. With no makeup on. Do I have to say it? Yes—seeing Joan Rivers without makeup has proven to me that I'll be gay in my next life too. It will do it, it's that powerful, it's that strong.”“On Braxton Family Values I am a sister, but on this show, it will be a whole different Tamar. Because I am his wife, I am successful and it's a whole other different lifestyle.”
"That moment is when you know that a couple picked what theme they want for their wedding truly because they love it and it makes sense to them. [Taylor and Jason are] a perfect example of how to pick a look, or style, or concept or theme that tells the story of who they are."“Cause that's not what I want to do. I changed my mind. It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind, I changed my mind.”“You have to plant a few seeds to make a baby; grinding just won't do it.”“Surprisingly enough, [the oral transaction] made Gabe and I closer. I learned some things about myself throughout the whole process. I'm imperfect in my marriage.”“[Goldie Hawn] had so much plastic surgery that, 'when she swallows, she has an orgasm.”

“I’m doing this myself – I’m listening to Prince. He said, ‘Toni, you have to do it yourself. I mean record companies are great, but the new movement is Internet and putting it out on digital and you don’t really need them for that.’ So wish me luck, I’m going out here on a limb!”

–Toni Braxton on her new single, “I Heart You,” on the Wendy Williams Show on Tuesday, April 3.

Watch Toni Braxton’s Music Video: “I Heart You”, on WEtv.com!

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