Judy Sheindlin

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

I still love working. I still love being in the mix of things.

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success.

I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.