Cher Quotes

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.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

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.

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

It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it

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

Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

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.

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.

I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

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

I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.

Women are the architects of society

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

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

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.

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

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

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I'm not old-fashioned.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

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.

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

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

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

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

If you can give it, I can take it
'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it
I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight
So if you're so tough, come on and prove it
Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it
Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
Just like Jesse James

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

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.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

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

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

People are negative no matter what you do.

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

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

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

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.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

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.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

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

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

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'm from a Gypsy background!

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

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

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.

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

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

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

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.

You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.

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 love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.

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

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

Women have to harness their power - its 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.

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