" There's times when I just have to quit thinking ... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping. I take Him shopping with me. I say 'OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain'." - Tammy Faye Bakker

Tammy on her makeup: "I'll change my makeup," she proclaims, giggling, "when Dolly Parton has size-32 boobs." Source: PEOPLE Magazine 3/96

Tammy About How the Media Villified Her and Jim after the PTL Club Scandal: "We lived no differently than any of the other evangelists," she says. "That report about an air conditioner in the dog house was ridiculous--it was an old heater Jim found lying around. And our bathroom fixtures weren't gold-plated; they were brass"

When Asked By the Charlotte Newspaper About Working with Jim Bakker Again, Tammy Responded in print 12/30/99: "I don't know. Roe and I have talked about it and if he (Jim Bakker) would ask me…we would make a great team," she said. "You know I think we work well together. It's totally up to Jim. But we have not talked about it."

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. Source: "Observer" (London), 2/28/88

"I would love to educate the public that rather than whisper and giggle and get all nervous when you see someone famous, just go up and say hi. And most famous people would appreciate that rather than standing behind their back and whispering and laughing giggling."

"Fame is like a shadow that follows you. You never quite reach out and touch the shadow, and the minute you get in certain places it disappears. Fame is an elusive shadow."

On Animals…

"I don't know what people do without puppy dogs and kitty cats. I think that if you're lonely that a puppy dog or a kitty cat is just such a wonderful addition to your home. They bring you peace and so much joy and fun and laughter, you never need to come home to an empty house again if you got puppy dogs and kitty cats."

Tammy on Addiction

"Hallucinations are really interesting, they're something I never had before, and I saw cartoons."

"It looked like orange juice to me...said, 'Drink this down and don't stop. Just drink it right down.' So I thought it was orange juice, and I drank it right down. I began to giggle as we took off, and, when I woke up, I was in California."

"As long as I've got my diet coke, I guess I'll be all right."

Tammy Faye on Dieting….

"I don't eat salad. That's where I'm different from the California folks. I like meat, potatoes and gravy, that's the kind of girl I am·.And dessert. Never miss dessert. Sometimes I get my dessert first, you know, to keep my priorities straight and make sure I can eat it. 'Cause if you save it to last sometimes you don't order it and that's- that's a sin."

"I've been living off cookies for a day and a half now. But there's cake somewhere here, and I want some."

"Don't ever eat white flour or white sugar or this horrible kind of frosting stuff." Tammy on Tammy…

"People always say you cry all the time but I laugh much, much more than I cry."

"I like eyelashes. I'm probably a little bit more dramatic than most people would like me to be. But I enjoy that...that's just who I am."

"(In my purse)...I've got breath savers. Gum. Vitamins. Lipstick. Combs. Keys. Old Kleenex. And a Pizza Hut voucher, medium, any way you want it. I got two Allerest. And I've got three cookies.

Tammy Faye on Life in the Fast Lane…

"I've never had a speeding ticket."

"I like to go fast and so you lose your tummy on these bumps. They have these...it's like a roller coaster if you're goin' fast enough. When my grandbabies were here and there wasn't any traffic, I floored it and we were goin' 'Whoo! Whoo!' We were losin' our tummy on these wonderful hills and valleys."

"They park police cars along here sometimes and everybody slows down, but they have teddy bears in them. I think that is so cute, to see teddy bears sitting in police cars...and they're just parked every so often to kind of remind people to slow down. In a nice way. I think that is so cute. Teddy bears."

Tammy Faye on Life….

"We're all made out of the same old dirt. Every one of us. There's no one better than the other. That is my philosophy of life. I never forget where I came from."

"If you will run towards your fears, you will find that your fears are never as bad as you think they are."

"There's something that I preach about that I think is very important, and it's a little word called 'halt': H-A-L-T. And it says never do things, never make decisions when you're hungry, never make decisions when you're angry, never make decisions when you're lonely, and never make decisions when you're tired."

"You cannot go forward looking in the rear-view mirror of your life."

"I'm just a small town girl at heart. And I wanna go back to the trees and the grass and the flowers, and my kids and my grandkids. Because when you get down to it, that's really all there is. That's what counts in life. And I've learned that. It's not what you have. It's people that count."

"You know one thing about jewelry? It doesn't hug you."

"If life hands you a lemon, start making lemonade."

"It's gonna be okay, you know?"

"When I look at people I do not see gay or straight; all I see is the person. And I see a person God loves, and that His son Jesus died on the cross for. So who am I to judge? I do not judge anyone anymore. I have been misjudged so many times -- by people who either didn't understand or didn't want to understand the things that happened in my life. I know how it hurts to be judged. I don't want to be a courtroom. I want to be a hospital." --Former TV-evangelist sidekick Tammy Faye Messner as quoted in the Jan. 3 Seattle Gay News.

''Don't feel sorry for yourself,'' Messner said upon her departure. ''Get up, get dressed and take a walk around the mall.'' Source:The Daily Ardmoureite 12/27/99

"The best part of making the film," says Tammy Faye "was being able to tell my side of the story. I never have had that privilege with the press. I was so grateful to at last have my time. Most people think I'm a cartoon character--like I'm Betty Boop --that's how I'm portrayed, not as a real person. But I'm a grandma. I do all my own housework. I scrub commodes." Source: E!Online News

I think being gay is just being a person who has a different thought on life. They're just people. I don't think that God categorizes people. I went to Disneyland one time, and it rained -- it’s so awful when it rains at Disneyland -- and everyone disappeared inside. And when the rain stopped and everybody came out, every single person had yellow raincoats on. You couldn't tell the fat from the thin, the rich from the poor. You couldn't tell anyone from anyone else. And that day I looked up and I said, “God, I think this is how you see us, all in yellow raincoats, and only you have the permission to look under those yellow raincoats.” --Metro Weekly: Washington DC's Gay and Lesbian Magazine 10/30/03