Cher quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

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

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.

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

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

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

I'm going to die wearing the same things that I love wearing. I'm going to wear my jeans. I'm going to wear wifebeaters. I'm going to wear my leather jacket. I don't care. As long as I can look good in it, and feel comfortable in it, then I'm going to do it.

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.

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

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

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

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

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

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

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

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'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

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

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!

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

I wouldn't mind living with someone forever. I don't really want to get married. I don't see any reason for it. And yet I'm so romantic that every time I think I meet someone I want to live with them forever and ever.

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

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 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.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

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.

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.

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

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

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 love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.

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

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

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

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 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.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

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.

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.

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

Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

Women are the architects of society

I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

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

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

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

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do you believe in life after love?

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

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

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

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.

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.

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

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

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

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

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

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

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

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

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.

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

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

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?

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

People are negative no matter what you do.

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'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.

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.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

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