Cher quotes

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

#Hate #Believe #People

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.
-- Cher

#Thinking #Able #Imagine

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

#Tattoo #Skins #Likes

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.
-- Cher

#Thinking #Blow #People

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

#Motivational #Best Love #Grass

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.
-- Cher

#Cute #Beautiful #Mother

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

#Inspirational #Courage #Greatness

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. It doesn't always turn out.
-- Cher

#Thinking #Groups #Happy Endings

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

#Taken #Thinking #Worry

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.
-- Cher

#Mother #Nice #Age

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
-- Cher

#Weapons #Sometimes #Wounds

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.
-- Cher

#Jeans #Long #Care

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

#Inspirational #Determination #Motivation

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

#Gay #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Cher

#Music #Women #Thinking

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

#Coffee

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

#Imagination

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.
-- Cher

#Giving #Bullshit #Advice

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.
-- Cher

#Funny #Girl #Breakup

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

#Love #Funny #Break Up

Women are the architects of society
-- Cher

#Architect

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.
-- Cher

#Girl #Money #Pet

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

#Shoes #Feet #Goes On

Do you believe in life after love?
-- Cher

#Believe

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.
-- Cher

#Motivational #Fitness #Workout

I only answer to two people, myself and God.
-- Cher

#Self #Two #People

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

#Friendship #Trust #Encouragement

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

#Men #Trying #Way

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

#Rain #Scrapbooking #Toys

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

#Love #Life #Relationship

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.
-- Cher

#Mean #Thinking #Hair

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.
-- Cher

#Positive #Firsts #Harness

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.
-- Cher

#Age #Firsts #Realizing

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

#Funny #Fitness #Bottles

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.
-- Cher

#Break Up #Men #Luxury

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

#Love #Funny Love #Husband

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

#Inspiring

To me marriage is for five or ten years
-- Cher

#Years

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

#Stupid #Lazy #Records

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

#Christian #Boys #Thursday

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

#School #Boys #Useless

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.
-- Cher

#Men #Order #Ends

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

#White #White Collar #Shirts

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

#Who I Am #Merit #Compromise

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

#Mother #Crazy #Home

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.
-- Cher

#Peaceful #Needs #News

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
-- Cher

#Song #Heart #Fighting

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

#Life #Years #Matter

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.
-- Cher

#Complaining #Sometimes #Feels

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

#Sex #Boys #Thinking

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

#Sex #Looks #Body

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.
-- Cher

#Wall #Love You #Gay

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

#Want

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.
-- Cher

#Hate #Sanctuary #My Thoughts

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

#Motivational #Believe #Waiting

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
-- Cher

#Love #Funny Love #Men

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

#Queens #Drag #Dressed Up

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.
-- Cher

#Past #Years #Next Year

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.
-- Cher

#Buddhist #Littles #Towns

I'm from a Gypsy background!
-- Cher

#Gypsy #Backgrounds

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

#Opinion #Fame

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

#Inspirational #Kissing

People are negative no matter what you do.
-- Cher

#People #Negative #Matter

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.
-- Cher

#Christmas #Aunt #Japan

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.
-- Cher

#Men #Thinking #Tasks

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?
-- Cher

#Country #Black #Minorities

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.
-- Cher

#Kissing #Men #Needs

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

#Coffee #Drs #Peppers

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.
-- Cher

#Thinking #Singers #Entertainers

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

#Nice #Good Enough #Enough

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

#Looks #Littles #Becoming

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

#Clothes

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!
-- Cher

#Girl #Christian #Gay

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

#Funny #Doors #Dumb

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!
-- Cher

#Strong #Moving #Thinking

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.
-- Cher

#Mother #Art #Creative

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.
-- Cher

#Years #Forever #Floating

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

#Bridges #Towers #Hello

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

#Work Out #Age #My Family

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.
-- Cher

#Apology #Promise #Apologizing

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.
-- Cher

#Girl #Insecure #Mirrors

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

#Prejudice #Break

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

#Men #Good Kisser

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

#Differences #World

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

#Smart #President #United States

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

#Strong #Ideas #Want

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

#Party #House #Singing

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.
-- Cher

#Looks #Young #Values

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.
-- Cher

#People #Firsts #Tvs

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

#Jobs #Dirty #Ridiculous

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon
-- Cher

#Wrinkles

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

#Dream #Reaching

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.
-- Cher

#Home #Car #Politics

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.
-- Cher

#Thinking #Holocaust #Survival

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

#Clothes #Hungry #Bothered

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.'
-- Cher

#Thinking #Adorable #Conferences

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

#Husband #My Husband #Stills

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
-- Cher

#Good Times #Life Is #Enjoy

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 ***** on my back, they're mine!
-- Cher

#Long #Noses #Body

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.
-- Cher

#Dream #Watches #Proud