Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Nicola Roberts

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Nicola Roberts.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Nicola Roberts

Nicola Maria Roberts is a British pop singer. She rose to prominence in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's Popstars: The Rivals. The group's success helped them win the competition and they were later entered in Guinness World Records as the most successful reality television music-group. They enjoyed 20 consecutive top-ten singles, spawning five albums and positive critical responses.

Not everyone can like what you wear - sometimes you don't even like what you wear.
I'm frightened of the dark.
Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group. — © Nicola Roberts
Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group.
Time off doesn't sit well with me.
We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.
Having red hair was never an issue, I'm so happy I have red hair.
I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.
I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.
My celebrity hair icon is Lana Del Rey, and beauty wise I like Jennifer Lawrence and I love Kerry Washington in 'Scandal' - her make-up is flawless on that show. She is one of my TV icons.
I love Rodial, their products are amazing.
Kanye West would be my dream collaboration.
We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.
Too much dairy and wheat gives me bad skin. — © Nicola Roberts
Too much dairy and wheat gives me bad skin.
I always felt that people found women more attractive if they were tanned and there are some parts where I'm so pale, I'm blue and see-through.
I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.
I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.
For years I hated being pale.
We made mistakes publicly.
A Chanel bag will retain its value if you want to sell it to a vintage shop. I've got Chanel bags from the 1980s and they have that fashion heritage aspect.
You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?
I have some people in my life who are stunning on the outside but maybe not as beautiful on the inside and I have people in my life who are such lovely people so I see them as being really beautiful.
I started looking at women like Lily Cole and Sophie Ellis Bextor - beautiful women with their pale skin, rather than looking at the run-of-the-mill, tanned, average lady.
When you're confident about something, people can't bully you about it.
I like everything to be natural... believable.
It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.
I'm one of those people who likes to be the only redhead in the village.
I was aware that there weren't many make up brands that catered for women for extra pale skin so I feel proud that I've been the person to do it.
I feel like I had quite a bad time from about 2003 to 2007.
I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.
I used to always wear jeans, T-shirts and tracksuits because I was narrow-minded about fashion.
I want people to stop being so obsessed with the way they look.
Me whole life, me whole childhood, me whole growing up, the competitions I went for and the weekends doing the dancing and all the shows, was to be a singer.
Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.
You've got to be your own best friend.
Don't like lychees.
I was never bullied at school.
I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.
For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud. — © Nicola Roberts
For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud.
I don't model myself on just one person because I don't think that's healthy.
People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.
I used to do a lot of dancing when I was younger.
People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.
In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking away.
I'm just the biggest Kanye fan. I think he's a genius.
It was weird. I joined this band because my life was all about singing. Then Girls Aloud became successful, and suddenly it wasn't just about being able to sing any more. It turned into a beauty contest.
I hated London; I was so lonely.
I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.
We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band. — © Nicola Roberts
We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band.
I had to learn to have confidence.
I struggled all the time to find makeup that was light enough.
I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.
Ultimately I'm quite a strong person.
I think everyone just likes what they like. And fashion is something that I have found a lot of 'like' in.
I was a 16-year-old little girl from this little town who just wanted to sing.
I'm one of four so I'm very family orientated. Me, my sister and my two little brothers are like the four musketeers; it's us against everyone else. We're like a little pack.
I think if you're happy and you're a nice person and you have a nice personality that always shines through.
In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it's a big production and you don't have time to talk to the crowd about the songs.
I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.
I want cancer rates to fall.
I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in my body that's from a packet. I used to eat microwave ready meals, because we were so busy, but now I like to eat clean.
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