Valerie Bertinelli Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Beautiful? No. That's why I'm doing this role in I'll Take Manhattan. I was getting the feeling that people didn't think I was pretty any longer.

Ed has a bigger heart than I do. I won't forgive Dave for what he did to the man I love. Ed will. I like revenge, Ed doesn't.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

For a man to say I love you, crying, it's like, God, it was really sweet.

Honesty is very sexy.

I didn't know how to wear a tampon, and I thought that if I wasn't a virgin, maybe they'd fit better.

I do think Ed smokes too many cigarettes, and he does drink too much sometimes.

I don't know all of the misconceptions that are out there. I try not to listen.

I don't think about acting a lot.

I don't think I was quite aware of what was really going on in my life.

I felt like I was 15 all over again. I wanted their approval and I wanted to be the good girl again.

I guess you want what you can't have.

I had a miscarriage. It wasn't the easiest thing to deal with. But nobody knew I was pregnant.

I had a very good family that really protected me from everything, and it was a different era.

I knew I was feeling something very different for this man. We were in Phoenix and we'd known each other a month. Ed had just won best rock guitarist in Guitar Player magazine for the fourth time in a row.

I like being a married woman and I like the man I'm married to.

I run into Bonnie, I'll run into Mac. But it's been a good 20 years since we've all four been in a room together.

I see how raw I was and how green I was. But I think, Oh, what a cute little girl. But that's about it.

I think Dave was jealous that Ed had fallen in love and was happy. Dave tended to keep Ed in a miserable place and liked him there because he could control him that way.

I think I'm a much better person inside than I used to be.

I wasn't being followed everywhere. My celebrity, for as big as it was at that time, it was a little bit safer.

I'd like to have four kids. Ed says he wants a full band.

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

I'm a good girl. I am, pretty much.

I'm just not a confident person.

I'm not going to tell these actresses they stink.

I'm proud of what I did, like when I was scared to do a scene and I got through it and I was good.

I'm the kind of person who clams up and holds it all inside; he's the type who gets it out and says what he feels. He's brutally honest.

I've asked him to leave, but he says, Absolutely not. You're stuck with me. So there.

I've gone to interviews and read for a role, and it's gone to the wire, and then the actress that they pick, she's a film actress and I'm a TV actress.

I've had stories made up about me.

In TV, people do take me seriously. They know they're going to get good numbers. I just have to say, Give me this, and they'll practically do it.

It's a lot more fun in bed if you have something on. It's sexier to have to get around the clothes.

Looking back, I didn't realize how groundbreaking the show was when it first came out.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

Now, I don't know how the teenagers do it; have all of these people follow them around and write everything that they ever do and don't do.

One Day at a Time was just given to me.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

Valerie Van Halen is such a pretty name. All my credit cards, my driver's license, everything has Van Halen on it.

We didn't go to bed together till a month after we met. He wouldn't let me go to bed with him. I had wanted to, but he'd say, No. I want to know who you are first.

When Ed became happy and more independent, Dave couldn't control him anymore. Dave likes control.

When he told me he loved me, his defenses were down and I took advantage of him.

When I got too heavy, he would say, Honey, lose weight. Then when I got too thin, he said, I don't like making love with you, you've got to gain some weight.

When I'm happy with myself, he's happiest. But he likes me... firm.

Trivia

Valerie was on the show Apple's Way episode - The Flag in 1974.

Valerie was in the tv series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, episode - Campus Terror in 1978.

Valerie was in the movie Young Love, First Love in 1979.

Valerie was in the movie The Promise of Love in 1980.

Valerie was on the tv series Fridays in 1981-82.

Valerie was in the movie The Seduction of Gina in 1984.

Valerie was in the movie Silent Witness in 1985.

Valerie was in the movie Rockabye in 1986.

Valerie was in the movie Number One with a Bullet in 1987.

Valerie was in the movie Pancho Barnes in 1988.

Valerie was on the tv series Sydney in 1990.

Valerie was in the movie What She Doesn't Know in 1992.

Valerie was on the series Cafe Americain episode, Love the One You're With in 1994.

Valerie was in the movie A Case for Life in 1996.

Valerie was in the movie Night Sins in 1997.

Valerie was in the movie Crazy Love in 2003.

Valerie was in the movie Finding John Christmas in 2003.

Valerie used to smoke until she discovered she had asthma.

Valerie fitness trainer is Debbie Rocker.

Valerie dated Scott Colomby in the 1970s.

Valerie has a son named Wolfgang, who was born on March 16, 1991.

After twenty years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences on July 9, 2002, Eddie and Valerie announced that they had been separated since October 2001.

Valerie did a voice over on the show

Valerie was a contestant in 1977 on

On February 22. 2005 Valerie played herself on

Valerie appeared on

Valerie appeared on the Johnny Carson show on October 25, 1989.

Valerie did a narration of a book called Princess by Jean P. Sasson in 1992.

In 1981 Valerie won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series for One Day at a Time.