Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley Ballas - Page 2

'Strictly' is so loved by the British public, I have always been a massive fan.

For Strictly,' when you go out on a Saturday, you want to look your best for the public. I can't go out there in my jogging bottoms.

I decided to learn how to cook and cook I did. And I ate it all - and everyone else's food too.

I definitely lack in self-esteem in my personal life.

I've had a lot of trolling on Instagram, things I can't even repeat on air. The biggest shock was when it was hand-delivered to the Hippodrome theatre before I went on air. Hand-written.

People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can't help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins and having time out for meditation are so important.

When you get to my age, 59, the thought of getting the Latin dress and the Latin shoes on is a bit worrying. Your heart and your mind is always willing, but sometimes your body just says What are you doing?!'

What I like to do when nobody's watching at home is, when I have my shower in the morning, I listen to music - my favorite group is Alexander Jean - they wrote a beautiful rumba called Paper Planes.' So I do my little rumba moves while I'm washing my hair.

Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted to be so perfect.

I had breast implants done to save my marriage. It was the sorriest day of my life.

It's not about what somebody else thinks about you, it's about what I feel like in my own clothes in my own skin.

I'm the happiest at home when I get a visit from my daughter-in-law, BC Jean, and Mark Ballas, my son. They'll pop round for breakfast or I'll attempt to cook them a meal. That's the most special time for me.

No one wants to see my bits jiggling.

On Twitter one lady said, I've seen corpses that look better than Shirley.' I saw the picture she was talking about that Comic Relief had posted and I thought, Well yeah, she's got a point.'

I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off to go to Cape Town to discover and find out more.

I always felt in my life I had something to prove. To myself, and to anyone who ever said I wouldn't amount to anything.

For 50 years of my life I never weighed myself at all, I would go by how my clothes fit, but I was back in England to take care of my mother while she was getting better. The pounds crept on and I got a little bit nervous about it.

When I was with my second husband, I'd always paint my nails and go to bed with my make-up on; he loved all that.

I'm a person who likes to live in the moment because yesterday's gone and tomorrow is promised to nobody.

The first thing I do in the morning is pick up my cell phone and call my mother to check that she's ok, and the first thing I do in the evening is call my mother to see how she's doing, and my son to see how his day went.

You know when you go into a room there's always somebody that thinks they're better than somebody else.

I don't think anyone should assume anything about someone else's life.

My dad left when I was two and I didn't know too much about his family.

Without a stable mind, it's difficult for anything else to function.

I am not a Suzy Homemaker.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.

I don't want to go into a relationship that can't go anywhere.

I'm paranoid about mosquitoes.

I've been in an industry of glitz since I was a little girl. I'm always going to love to wear eveningwear and eyelashes.

I'm not a judgmental person because I have been judged all my life.

I meditate and take time for controlled breathing.