Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Cybill Shepherd
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Cybill Shepherd.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.
I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.
'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.
It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.
With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.
My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken.
No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.
I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas.
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.
We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.
When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being.
I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side.
If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.
One of my ex-husbands thought I had a breast job. They looked bigger. I just got the proper lingerie.
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).
Some people say Im attractive. I say I agree.
I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.
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