Top 40 Sherri Shepherd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there’s amazing blessings on the other side.”

— Sherri Shepherd

2. “I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that’s my belief. I still don’t know what ‘Christian’ means. I’m a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.”

— Sherri Shepherd

3. “I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.”

— Sherri Shepherd

4. “I’m a mother. Mothers multi-task.”

— Sherri Shepherd

5. “My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they’re not one of them.”

— Sherri Shepherd

6. “I love ‘The View,’ so when you’re living the dream, it’s not work.”

— Sherri Shepherd

7. “My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.”

— Sherri Shepherd

8. “I can’t swim and I’m terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water – just not in it.”

— Sherri Shepherd

9. “The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.”

— Sherri Shepherd

10. “I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.”

— Sherri Shepherd

11. “God bless you if you have one child, but I don’t think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don’t know what I would do if I had been an only child.”

— Sherri Shepherd

12. “If you don’t go towards the thing you fear, you won’t be able to say you lived.”

— Sherri Shepherd

13. “Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

— Sherri Shepherd

14. “When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.”

— Sherri Shepherd

15. “My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn’t sound romantic, but otherwise it won’t get done.”

— Sherri Shepherd

16. “Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it’s horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.”

— Sherri Shepherd

17. “Oh my goodness, I’m in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I’m too old to play his love interest. They’d probably cast me as his grandmomma’s friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.”

— Sherri Shepherd

18. “For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I’m not one of those pretty criers.”

— Sherri Shepherd

19. “I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!”

— Sherri Shepherd

20. “I take the subway all the time here in New York. I love people watching and trying to figure out everybody’s background, especially teenagers – they’re so uninhibited when they display puppy love. I concoct stories in my mind: ‘Are you guys like Romeo and Juliet?’”

— Sherri Shepherd

21. “Working with Tracy Morgan on ‘30 Rock’ is really great. I love Tracy. He’s wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire – his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I’m eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.”

— Sherri Shepherd

22. “Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone’s potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.”

— Sherri Shepherd

23. “I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I’m actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.”

— Sherri Shepherd

24. “I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people’s couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.”

— Sherri Shepherd

25. “I’ve always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you’ve got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.”

— Sherri Shepherd

26. “I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.”

— Sherri Shepherd

27. “Black people don’t talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!”

— Sherri Shepherd

28. “I get along very well with the cast of ‘30 Rock.’ I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I’m just thankful they keep asking me. I didn’t think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, ‘We want you back,’ I’m screaming. I’m jumping up and down and screaming.”

— Sherri Shepherd

29. “As the oldest I was a daddys girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.”

— Sherri Shepherd

30. “My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.”

— Sherri Shepherd

31. “I am on the power toothbrush train and I’m asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It’s so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.”

— Sherri Shepherd

32. “A lot of people say it’s cathartic to cook, and I’m like, ‘How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?’”

— Sherri Shepherd

33. “My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn’t have any friends.”

— Sherri Shepherd

34. “I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming – and I do it four times a week.”

— Sherri Shepherd

35. “I didn’t see my son the entire time I did ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ The only time I saw Jeffrey was when he came to the show Monday and Tuesday nights to watch me dance. You literally rehearse six to eight hours every single day – 40 to 50 hours a week.”

— Sherri Shepherd

36. “I’ve taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire ‘Dora the Explorer’ soundtrack.”

— Sherri Shepherd

37. “I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that’s what I do every day on ‘The View.’”

— Sherri Shepherd

38. “I’ve always had a quirky way of looking at things. It’s my coping mechanism.”

— Sherri Shepherd

39. “I don’t think anything predated Christians.”

— Sherri Shepherd

40. “I believe God has called His people to be a light in darkness.”

— Sherri Shepherd