Cher Quotes

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

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.

What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!

I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so.

It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

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.

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day.

I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

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.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.

There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

I'm insecure about everything, because I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.