I treasure my privacy.
— Wendy Williams
Family and personal life always come first and career second.
I didn't have the easiest childhood. I was never the popular girl in school growing up. I was always the lone black girl or the lone fat girl or the long tall girl, so that has made me more compassionate to all people. It also gave me the drive and ambition to go after my dreams in a big way.
I don't really cook.
My bark is worse than my bite.
I view myself as a multicultural woman who happens to be black.
I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.
I wake up around 8 o'clock in the morning. I am an early riser.
I always have my anti-germ-y wipes, always.
It's not how you fall down or how low you go in life, but if you can get yourself up and set an example for even one person, then you've done your job.
Radio is not a high-paying job; I just enjoyed being on the radio.
The reason that it's so easy to go out there and be me - warts and all, critics and everything - is because my family and my career are the only two things that really matter in the big circle of life.
Ten years of being on TV, I'd never taken a sick day.
You need more than a year to grow on somebody, and it's very intimate being invited into people's homes every day. Once that trust is built, then you're like that old friend. That's the sweet spot.
I didn't ask to be a role model. I don't like that responsibility. But if you see something in me that you really adore, thank you.
I enjoy leading a well-rounded life. Believe me, I don't take it for granted.
Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!
I'm not your average talk-show host. This is a tough grind. Morning TV, you wake up at 5:30 in the morning, and you go all day.
I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.
I don't feel I ask anything of anybody else that I wouldn't give up myself. I don't think the things I ask are particularly shocking, and I don't think I approach celebrities from the point of view of being a polished journalist.
I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.
I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.
I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.
When I travel, I love to have roll-up flats, the ones that you roll up and put in a bag, just in case your feet start hurting.
Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.
I didn't grow up rich. I like it here on TV. With finery.
My blood pressure is always either perfect or low. It's never high.
I have Graves' disease and hyperthyroid.
When I make a promise about keeping something in confidence, I do.
People have accused me of bleaching my skin, of getting a nose job. They squint at my mom, like, 'I didn't know Wendy was Asian.' I am black all day, honey pie. I am black and very proud.
I wanted to do the kind of show that I would want to watch as a busy wife, mother, and midde-aged woman.
I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!
The responsibility that I ultimately feel to the audience is to entertain, maybe enlighten, and help you take your mind off messy things.
I feel as though I'm nice and that I'm down to earth, and - people like me get taken advantage of. So by being tall and outgoing, people mistake that for being overpowering, overbearing, loud, and being a bully. No, no I'm a flower.
The only thing urban about me is the parties. I have almost always been a suburbanite. I got a car for my graduation. I want to have a manicured lawn and have my son go to a good college.
I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.
I think weddings are ridiculous.
I love to travel with my own hot sauce, and I have it in packets so I no longer have to be disturbed by TSA.
I can't change my skin. I won't change my voice. I can't change my confidence.
I know things about R. Kelly that I will take to my grave - unless he tells them.
What I think, a lot of people think. They're just too afraid to say it.
I'm where I'm supposed to be. In that purple chair, by myself, yip yapping. I am. I didn't fall into it, you know. I wanted to be a newscaster or a radio broadcaster since I was six years old. When I went to college, I majored in communications. When I touched a microphone, I fell in love.
We, as women, particularly if we have families, you know, we're taking care of children, we're taking care of, you know, our home, our husbands, we take care of everybody but ourselves. And it's really unfortunate.
People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It's fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I'm a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.
The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.
