Cher Quotes
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.
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.
The trouble with some women, they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him.
(People magazine, 9/1/85) 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 (Jonas Salk) did that I was really pissed off.
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.
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.
In this business you have to be tough, and if someone pushes me really far I can certainly be impossible. I`ve always said, "If you`re nice they walk over you and if you stand up for yourself they call you a bitch."
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn`t mean she can`t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
