Cher Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

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.

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

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.

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 can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

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

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.

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.

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?

People are negative no matter what you do.

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

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

The road is a nasty place and lonely.

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

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

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

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front 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.

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

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

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.

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

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

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

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

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

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.

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

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

To me marriage is for five or ten years

Mariah, Renee, they really supported me. I think it's because they know how difficult it is to work in the arts, and it's so easy to veer from that path. Life is short, and it's important that we support each other.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Women are the architects of society

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.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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.

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.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do you believe in life after love?

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.

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

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

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.

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

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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