I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.

Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.

If you're cooking at home, you'll eat healthier, and when you add family and friends into the mix, it enriches your social life, too.

So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.

It's not up to the kids to decide what's healthy for them. That's our job.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.

Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it's like, okay, gets the word out.

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

Rush Limbaugh criticizes me a lot on the air. I take that as a badge of honor.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.

For a guy who spends endless hours on a golf course, it's best not to have a wife waiting for you at home.

The show Larry is much more aggressive. The real Larry is very gentle and very sweet and doesn't like to offend people.

The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn't invited to! The worst is the Twitpic - people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you're not there.

The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them with levity and self-deprecation first.

They are very different in terms of the solution. Where 'An Inconvenient Truth,' you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with 'Fed Up' you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.

There was no social media really when 'Inconvenient Truth' came out. I wish we had Twitter and the power of that to help get the word out.

We're all environmentalists. People feel like, 'Well, if I drive an SUV, I guess I can't be someone who works on global warming issues,' and you can. You can! If you drive an SUV, you're still an environmentalist.

I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, 'I have to fight carbon emissions.'

I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.

When I was a little kid - and I don't know why - I was obsessed with littering. I'd yell at people in their cars if I saw someone throw paper or a cup out of their window.

It's one thing to have ice cream once in a while with your family, and quite another to eat foods on a regular basis that you don't even know are full of sugar.

We are all victims of the marketing that says cooking is hard and takes too long, but that's simply not true. Scrambled eggs take five minutes to make.

Dealing with politicians, that's a little different. But government doesn't change until people demand it.

Everyone has a right to speak out.

Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment for a lot of people.

If you care about the health of the planet, you have to care about the health of its people, and if you really go deeper, it starts with the community of your family.

It takes so much courage to get out of a marriage.

You can love someone and not be able to live together.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'

When you go to pick your kids up from school, cars are lined up idling for anywhere from five to 20 minutes. Starting a 'no idling' rule in your school carpool lane could have a huge impact.

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

You don't necessarily know you're consuming sugar when you're using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It's added to all these foods.