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.
— Cher
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 keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.
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.
People are negative no matter what you do.
I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
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.
Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
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 don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
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've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.
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.
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 went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.
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 can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.
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 think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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 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.
The road is a nasty place and lonely.
I'm not old-fashioned.
I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?
I'm from a Gypsy background!
I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.
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 would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
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 kill myself for my body.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
I only answer to two people, myself and God.
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.
In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
