Brooke Burns Quotes

“I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.”

— Brooke Burns

“I am so happy, so in love, and so content.”

— Brooke Burns

“I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.”

— Brooke Burns

“At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.”

— Brooke Burns

“My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.”

— Brooke Burns

I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

— Brooke Burns

“I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.”

— Brooke Burns

“I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.”

— Brooke Burns

“I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!”

— Brooke Burns

OMG, I am a married woman!

— Brooke Burns

“I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.”

— Brooke Burns

“I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.”

— Brooke Burns

“I'm a Southern girl.”

— Brooke Burns

“To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.”

— Brooke Burns

“I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, 'That's it.'”

— Brooke Burns

“There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.”

— Brooke Burns

“I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.”

— Brooke Burns

“When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.”

— Brooke Burns

“Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.”

— Brooke Burns

“Not being able to dance anymore [was the hardest obstacle]. But, at the same time, I feel like that was one of the very first things that did give me that opportunity to say, "Are you gonna crumble here? Or maybe God has another destiny for your life and it's a different road than what you think it is?"”

— Brooke Burns