Top 158 Quotes & Sayings by Cher - Page 3

I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house. When you go to someone else's house for a party, it's not your responsibility at all, but when you have the party at your own house, there's a lot of responsibility. Everyone has to have a good time. So for me, acting is deeper.

At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

I'm insecure about everything, because I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.

It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.

It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.

If you can give it, I can take it 'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight So if you're so tough, come on and prove it Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it Tonight you're gonna go down in flames Just like Jesse James

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

To me marriage is for five or ten years

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.

My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.