Cher Quotes

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

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

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

I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

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

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

Women are the architects of society

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

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me.

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.

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

It's my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it's smaller and I'm happy. If I wanna put my tits on my back, they're mine!

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

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.

I have a belief: What belongs to you, comes to you.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

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

I wouldn't give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

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.

Do you believe in life after love?

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

If a man's a good kisser, he's a great f-.

Gay guys like a certain kind of woman. They like a flamboyant woman that's broken. They like a balls-to-the-wall woman, motherly but not; sexual but not. Gay guys are like this: they either love you or they don't even know you're on the planet. Once you have them, you have them.

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

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

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.

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

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.

Sometimes I don't tell the truth, which is telling the truth about not telling the truth. I think people don't tell the truth when they're afraid that something bad's going to happen if they tell the truth. I say things all the time that I could really get into trouble for, but they kind of blow over.