Williams: "The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "Reality shows aren't for overly educated people."

Williams: "What I think, a lot of people think. They're just too afraid to say it."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "Don't mistake my tears for weakness."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "Don't fault me for wearing a 20-inch blond wig - it doesn't mean I want to be a white person."

Williams: "All money is not good money."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "You know I don't want to fall. I'm a tall woman, and it's a long way down."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "My first diet was in the first grade! Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side."

Williams: "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."

Williams: "I love the grocery store. I would never have my groceries delivered."

Williams: "Yes, I wear caramel-colored Nude Barre fishnets August through June. Especially with shorter dresses, at age 48, they give my legs a nice finish."

Williams: "I don't believe in diet pills. I don't want my heart to race and pop out of my chest."