Top 60 Jenny McCarthy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The University of Google is where I got my degree from.”

— Jenny McCarthy

2. “Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.”

— Jenny McCarthy

3. “What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”

— Jenny McCarthy

4. “Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I’m on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.”

— Jenny McCarthy

5. “If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we’d rather have the measles versus autism, we’d sign up for the measles.”

— Jenny McCarthy

6. “I’m not as hard on myself anymore. I’m comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I’m really insecure about, but I’ve changed by loving me – C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.”

— Jenny McCarthy

7. “People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we’ll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.”

— Jenny McCarthy

8. “I’m so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, ‘To get boys, you need big boobs.’ I tell them, ‘Don’t get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren’t one of them.’ I want to get them half-size.”

— Jenny McCarthy

9. “Having a child makes you realize the importance of life – narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I’d be fine.”

— Jenny McCarthy

10. “I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, ‘you know, it’s like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.’”

— Jenny McCarthy

11. “I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?”

— Jenny McCarthy

12. “I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don’t become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.”

— Jenny McCarthy

13. “Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of what I did.”

— Jenny McCarthy

14. “My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.”

— Jenny McCarthy

15. “Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.”

— Jenny McCarthy

16. “It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.”

— Jenny McCarthy

17. “You totally value and respect your body as you get older.”

— Jenny McCarthy

18. “Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.”

— Jenny McCarthy

19. “I’m the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.”

— Jenny McCarthy

20. “When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I’m really into eggs Benedict in the morning.”

— Jenny McCarthy

21. “My tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It’s a great little secret.”

— Jenny McCarthy

22. “For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.”

— Jenny McCarthy

23. “Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.”

— Jenny McCarthy

24. “I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.”

— Jenny McCarthy

25. “Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan’s autism.”

— Jenny McCarthy

26. “The one thing I like about ‘Playboy’ is they don’t have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn’t really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.”

— Jenny McCarthy

27. “It’s absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.”

— Jenny McCarthy

28. “Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn’t come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.”

— Jenny McCarthy

29. “I’m the worst person to tell anybody how to date.”

— Jenny McCarthy

30. “I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: ‘Life is supposed to be fun!’”

— Jenny McCarthy

31. “Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.”

— Jenny McCarthy

32. “If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism.”

— Jenny McCarthy

33. “Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”

— Jenny McCarthy

34. “I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, ‘Hey, sorry about the autism, but here’s a step-by-step list on what to do next.’ But doctors don’t do that. They say ‘sorry’ and move you along.”

— Jenny McCarthy

35. “Kids will not listen to that. They’re going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.”

— Jenny McCarthy

36. “What is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.”

— Jenny McCarthy

37. “When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.”

— Jenny McCarthy

38. “At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.”

— Jenny McCarthy

39. “Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you’re a nun. Jesus can’t dump nuns.”

— Jenny McCarthy

40. “I can’t even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.”

— Jenny McCarthy

41. “I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don’t know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.”

— Jenny McCarthy

42. “So basically, I don’t know what I’m talking about. But maybe I do.”

— Jenny McCarthy

43. “Parents of recovered children, and I’ve met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature’s course. We all know better, and frankly we’re too busy helping other parents to really care.”

— Jenny McCarthy

44. “I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night – I don’t mix protein and carbs.”

— Jenny McCarthy

45. “Obviously, I’m not a trained actress, and right now I’ll come out and say I’m glad I’m not.”

— Jenny McCarthy

46. “I didn’t have to work out before 35 but now I have to.”

— Jenny McCarthy

47. “Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they’ll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they’ll run for the door. They know better.”

— Jenny McCarthy

48. “You don’t need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance – don’t stare.”

— Jenny McCarthy

49. “I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.”

— Jenny McCarthy

50. “When I first went public with my son Evan’s story, I just planned to talk about the ‘R’ word – Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the ‘V’ word – vaccines.”

— Jenny McCarthy