Post by oh my cher on Dec 12, 2005 0:51:22 GMT -5
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*LOVE and MEN*
“I can absolutely see myself falling in love again, but I can’t imagine why I would ever get married.”
“Who knows, I could walk out of my house tomorrow and meet Mr. Right. It always happens when you least expect it.”
“If you don’t love, what else is left for you? I don’t think you ever give up on love. You see it everywhere. It’s the most powerful emotion there is.”
“I’m not attracted to guys because they look great. I hardly see men that I am attracted to. Then there’s the problem of being Cher. It’s easy for women to hang out with men that are famous, but no man wants to be Mr. Cher.”
“I think men are fun and nice. I don’t think they are necessary to live.”
“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.”
“People ask me if I left Sonny for another man. I tell them no, I left him for a woman — me.”
“The problem with women is that they get all worked up over absolutely nothing, and then they marry him.”
“You can take everything I know about men and put it on the head of a pin, and still have room left for The Lord's Prayer.”
“Everybody should really love one another, because nobody's here on earth for that long a time.”
“Men are like fires; they go out when they're left unattended.”
“I’m my own woman, and I have to do the things I want to do with my life. What I am doing is growing up for the very first time in my life, and like everyone else who’s growing up, I’ll make mistakes." ”Well, the pros are, you don't have to brush your teeth before you go to bed, and you don't have to shave your legs for weeks at a time, and you can go home and just veg out and have control of the clicker. And the cons are, 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 think I'd prefer to have a partner, but if I don't find someone I'm interested in, I'd rather be by myself.”
"Geesh. I've been with Bob Mackie longer than I was with Sonny"
"Warren has probably been with everybody I know, and unfortunately I am one of them. But since I was only sixteen, maybe I can get out of it with that. I don't know if I was a bimbo then, but I had pretty low self-esteem, and I had never really been around men. I still don't know anything about them. But you want to know what? I honestly don't care what people think of who I choose to be with."
"Val left me. Robert left me. The two of them were really young, and they were both looking for their own identity, and I'm a big shadow. The men I pick aren't very much impressed with my lifestyle. I always pick men who are more work-ethic sorts. I like straight men."
Oh, I've been married twice. I'm not going to be married again. It's too hard. Well, maybe not...”
*MUSIC and FAME*
“I’m not the best singer in the world. I can’t listen to my voice. I don’t like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all the imperfections.”
“My voice? It’s not my favorite thing.”
“It’s bizarre. I couldn’t become an actress for five years because I was a singer. Then everyone was worried that people weren’t going to accept me as a singer because I’m an actress. It’s very funny.”
“I don’t listen to my own music. If we’re going to do a show someone else will come up with copies of all the old stuff so I can relearn the songs. The fun of it is doing it, not listening back to it.”
“Music does everything. It hits you in a place that you don’t have to process. I think music bypasses all those intellectual processes. When something hits you, it hits you in that place right in your chest, that place right in the middle of your body where you take in things that don’t go near your head.”
“I just wanted to be famous. Maybe not with a specific talent, but as a personality.”
“When I was little, I wanted to be famous. I didn’t know what it was going to be, I just wanted to be famous. And when I was famous, I just wanted to be good at something.”
“I'm a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.”
”No, it's just that it's one of those things where you don't know what you're letting yourself in for -- you try to make an impact on people, and then you do make an impact, and then you're screwed.”
"We were really radical for the times -- we brought sex to TV. People tuned in to see how naked I got. I dared to bare my belly button."
"What we did was stupid and naive and fun. Today, TV is just cruel. I don't know why people feel the need to debase themselves publicly. I don't think you should crush your spirit to get on TV."
“I don't know why everybody makes a big deal about rating albums, because young people buy them. When they pulled my video from MTV, I understood it. I didn't care that they banned it. I really didn't. It might not be suitable for very young children."
"Gosh, its just music. I don't think about it as any huge legacy. I think it's tough enough to just stay in the business this long. Music is just supposed to make people feel something and that's what I've done."
“I just wanted to be famous, The first thing I did when I learned to write was to practice my autograph."
*FANS and TOURING*
“People say ‘How can you stand a whole summer on the road with all of the one-night gigs?’ Well, I thrive on it.”
“What I do, I do for myself and my fans, the new and ones and the die-hard ones. The other people, the critics, what they say is like the poison of the business. But you have to take that along with the good. I think my fans have been unbelievable, because they just stuck by me when it looked like I was dead to the world and never coming back.”
“I'm only doing one farewell tour, and nobody said that it had to be brief.”
"Before I can actually see them, I can hear them. Before they can see me, I can see them. It gives me all this kind of energy and a feeling of unbelievable power. It's like you hold up this great shield and it bounces off them, and you bounce it back to them. Basically, I'm unbelievably shy, but what I can do in front of a group, in front of a lot of people for me is amazing- what I can't do in front of three people is sad. But I feel like I know every single person and not like in a corny "I know every single person", because it's not like that. It's like I know the feelings and the pain and joy of every single person in the audience. And also, because they have come to see me, there's something there. Ya know, because, they've come there to see me - We've got something."
“That's what my job is, to make people feel better.”
“Well your fans are like a strange extended version of your family because, you know, they stand behind you and give you support. And a lot of the time they give you support when what you're doing isn't that successful. Your fans give you the courage to keep going.”
“If you’ve been around as long as I’ve been around, people grow up and associate good times with you.”
“I like big audiences - the bigger, the better. In a huge room like the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the people provide a certain energy. And I can probably see the faces of a thousand people from stage. We connect. The larger their energy, the better my performance - and the more I get back.”
"There was one night in Detroit three years ago where nothing went well... my wig fell off while I was dancing and I walked upstage and almost knocked myself out when I ran into a piece of equipment. It was a total mess. I was no good and it was just horrible. That's when you just stop the show, have a moment with the audience, then just pick it up and go from there. Like during the tour in Sacramento recently, I dropped the microphone. It bothered me for about a second, but I just kept going. Something like that happens once out of 100 shows."
“I’d like to thank my fans, because my fans are like Jet fans. You get so much crap for being one of my fans.”
"I like the shows, and every once in a while, if you're not too tired, being in a town is great because you can go see things or you can do something. But after a while, especially when I was doing the movie and then going back out on the road, I just could hardly get up for a couple of months. All I could do was get up, do the show, and kind of just lay low. We had this kind of program that we did. We'd go miniature golfing, we'd go to these painting places where you'd do pottery, and we would rent out movie theatres and go to the museums and rent boats. I mean there's fun things that you can do on the road."
"You know what surprises me every night is that so many people show up," she said. "I look around and I just see everyone up to the rafters. I come out and just look at it all and it surprises me. And it shouldn't. It just does."
"You get dressed, you put your makeup on, and you go out there and a lot of times all you can think of is that, 'Oh, my God, I'm really tired.'And then when I come down (on the chandelier) and I see the audience below, and then I actually get on the floor, and I start walking around and I see people and I see their faces, it's like a ping pong game or a tennis match, 'cause the energy goes back and forth. And so that's what makes me able to do it. When I go out and see everybody and they're excited ... I kind of get caught up in their excitement."
“The road is tough, but the audience makes it all worthwhile.”
"When I do my work—this is going to sound nuts to everybody—I feel like it's some sort of ministry. When I go on stage and I've got 30,000 people out there, I feel like I am touching and knowing everybody in the group. They give me a huge amount of energy, and I can get inside them and give them something from my work. And for me, that's all my work has ever been about."
“I may be very rich now, but I grew up poor and the knowledge of what that’s like is forever engrained in me, mentally and emotionally. Touring as I have been doing, I’ve probably met and talked to more so-called ‘ordinary’ men and women than have most politicians on Capitol Hill. I feel in touch with what people are thinking.”
*AGE and APPEARANCE*
“At home, in the comfort of my own four walls and I’ll wear sweat pants and a T-shirt, a sweatshirt over that, my suede boots with a fleece lining, hair up in a ponytail, and no makeup.”
“I’m clean but ratty. It’s such a luxury to be able to be a slob like that. Sometimes the simplest thing is the most exciting.”
“I think I would be a cool old lady - just an older version of myself.”
“I wear my clothes, my clothes don’t wear me.”
“Just sing the song, Cher! See what happens when you get old? You start to ramble!”
“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.”
“Women dress for women, then men. I dress for myself.”
“As you can see, I've received my academy handbook on how to dress like a serious actress.”
“I think I'll always look really good for what my age is, and that'll be fine.”
“I wish I could never, ever grow old. That's why I kill myself with exercise.”
“I go around grubby all the time; I just don’t have the patience, except when I am working, to put on makeup or look good.”
"I remember thinking as I tried on one outfit, 'Sonny's gonna have a heart attack when he sees me wearing this.' It was a loincloth with the side removed. When Sonny saw it, he was a little bit ... Italian."
"What am I supposed to do until I'm old enough to play the Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft parts? Go camping for 10 years?"
“I loved being 40. And maybe 19. 40 and 19. And I would just alternate.”
"At first I didn't like the idea of being in my 50s. In fact, I hated it. But you have to always be figuring out new ways to stay in the game, you know?"
"I feel really young. Sometimes you're really mature and can think things out and have a lot of insight, and sometimes you're totally immature. That's the way I am. I never feel more than about 10 years old. I always feel kind of immature in a way, and I like that."
Cher (backstage in the press room the night she won the Oscar): “People were like so weirded-out about this dress. I mean, Coca-Cola wanted to see it before they would allow me to come tonight, it was unbelievable! I feel it's quite appropriate for the evening.”
"I don't know why people are preoccupied with my cosmetic surgery. I really don't. It mystifies me that people would care what I do to my body. I remember when I was young, all the people that were really popular-Sandra Dee and Doris Day-were people I really couldn't identify with. So then you feel inhibited and you feel ashamed, or you feel less good because you don't look in style, so I think what you have to do is create your own style. Everyone can say that they hate what Michael Jackson has done to himself. But it's none of our business. Just because you become famous shouldn't deter you from doing what you want with your life. If you let that happen, then you become like Elvis, where you have no life at all. I'm not just talking about cosmetic changes; it translates into your everyday life. "
"I'm gonna have wrinkles real soon."
"I had a couple [tattoos] removed because I was getting bored. And it's just nice to have the space back."
"I don't know why I like tattoos so much. I know it's crazy. I can't defend them. I've had some of my tattoos for twenty years. I love getting them. The women at Red Devil do piercing too. Now, I'm really frightened of piercing. That seems so extreme - like noses and lips and belly buttons and nipples and tongues."
“We [Cher, Paulette Betts, Georganne] were all doing face masks or something, and Chastity said, 'You girls are like teenagers.' Our topics of conversation are even still the same. It's all about men and our bodies."
“You don't really think about it until you see a retrospective, like in my show there's lots of retrospective film and video, but I'm usually busy on stage and don't really see it. But because I have a TV monitor in my dressing room to make sure that I'm on stage on time, every once in a while I will look over and think, ‘Oh yeah, that was 30 years ago.’ ”
"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."
“Not bad for an old girl”
“Being 50 sucked - so much extra effort, just to retain the status quo. Do I enjoy getting older? No! I’m thrilled and delighted for those people who love the experience. I just don’t happen to be one of them."
"Being in my 50s sucks. There are no advantages about getting older, but it sure beats the alternative. But I don't really feel older. I don't have as much energy as when I was 30, but I don't imagine there are too many 30-year-olds who could keep up with me."
"Forty frigging years! Even I can’t believe it, and it’s my own life I’m talking about!"
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*LOVE and MEN*
“I can absolutely see myself falling in love again, but I can’t imagine why I would ever get married.”
“Who knows, I could walk out of my house tomorrow and meet Mr. Right. It always happens when you least expect it.”
“If you don’t love, what else is left for you? I don’t think you ever give up on love. You see it everywhere. It’s the most powerful emotion there is.”
“I’m not attracted to guys because they look great. I hardly see men that I am attracted to. Then there’s the problem of being Cher. It’s easy for women to hang out with men that are famous, but no man wants to be Mr. Cher.”
“I think men are fun and nice. I don’t think they are necessary to live.”
“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.”
“People ask me if I left Sonny for another man. I tell them no, I left him for a woman — me.”
“The problem with women is that they get all worked up over absolutely nothing, and then they marry him.”
“You can take everything I know about men and put it on the head of a pin, and still have room left for The Lord's Prayer.”
“Everybody should really love one another, because nobody's here on earth for that long a time.”
“Men are like fires; they go out when they're left unattended.”
“I’m my own woman, and I have to do the things I want to do with my life. What I am doing is growing up for the very first time in my life, and like everyone else who’s growing up, I’ll make mistakes." ”Well, the pros are, you don't have to brush your teeth before you go to bed, and you don't have to shave your legs for weeks at a time, and you can go home and just veg out and have control of the clicker. And the cons are, 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 think I'd prefer to have a partner, but if I don't find someone I'm interested in, I'd rather be by myself.”
"Geesh. I've been with Bob Mackie longer than I was with Sonny"
"Warren has probably been with everybody I know, and unfortunately I am one of them. But since I was only sixteen, maybe I can get out of it with that. I don't know if I was a bimbo then, but I had pretty low self-esteem, and I had never really been around men. I still don't know anything about them. But you want to know what? I honestly don't care what people think of who I choose to be with."
"Val left me. Robert left me. The two of them were really young, and they were both looking for their own identity, and I'm a big shadow. The men I pick aren't very much impressed with my lifestyle. I always pick men who are more work-ethic sorts. I like straight men."
Oh, I've been married twice. I'm not going to be married again. It's too hard. Well, maybe not...”
*MUSIC and FAME*
“I’m not the best singer in the world. I can’t listen to my voice. I don’t like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all the imperfections.”
“My voice? It’s not my favorite thing.”
“It’s bizarre. I couldn’t become an actress for five years because I was a singer. Then everyone was worried that people weren’t going to accept me as a singer because I’m an actress. It’s very funny.”
“I don’t listen to my own music. If we’re going to do a show someone else will come up with copies of all the old stuff so I can relearn the songs. The fun of it is doing it, not listening back to it.”
“Music does everything. It hits you in a place that you don’t have to process. I think music bypasses all those intellectual processes. When something hits you, it hits you in that place right in your chest, that place right in the middle of your body where you take in things that don’t go near your head.”
“I just wanted to be famous. Maybe not with a specific talent, but as a personality.”
“When I was little, I wanted to be famous. I didn’t know what it was going to be, I just wanted to be famous. And when I was famous, I just wanted to be good at something.”
“I'm a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.”
”No, it's just that it's one of those things where you don't know what you're letting yourself in for -- you try to make an impact on people, and then you do make an impact, and then you're screwed.”
"We were really radical for the times -- we brought sex to TV. People tuned in to see how naked I got. I dared to bare my belly button."
"What we did was stupid and naive and fun. Today, TV is just cruel. I don't know why people feel the need to debase themselves publicly. I don't think you should crush your spirit to get on TV."
“I don't know why everybody makes a big deal about rating albums, because young people buy them. When they pulled my video from MTV, I understood it. I didn't care that they banned it. I really didn't. It might not be suitable for very young children."
"Gosh, its just music. I don't think about it as any huge legacy. I think it's tough enough to just stay in the business this long. Music is just supposed to make people feel something and that's what I've done."
“I just wanted to be famous, The first thing I did when I learned to write was to practice my autograph."
*FANS and TOURING*
“People say ‘How can you stand a whole summer on the road with all of the one-night gigs?’ Well, I thrive on it.”
“What I do, I do for myself and my fans, the new and ones and the die-hard ones. The other people, the critics, what they say is like the poison of the business. But you have to take that along with the good. I think my fans have been unbelievable, because they just stuck by me when it looked like I was dead to the world and never coming back.”
“I'm only doing one farewell tour, and nobody said that it had to be brief.”
"Before I can actually see them, I can hear them. Before they can see me, I can see them. It gives me all this kind of energy and a feeling of unbelievable power. It's like you hold up this great shield and it bounces off them, and you bounce it back to them. Basically, I'm unbelievably shy, but what I can do in front of a group, in front of a lot of people for me is amazing- what I can't do in front of three people is sad. But I feel like I know every single person and not like in a corny "I know every single person", because it's not like that. It's like I know the feelings and the pain and joy of every single person in the audience. And also, because they have come to see me, there's something there. Ya know, because, they've come there to see me - We've got something."
“That's what my job is, to make people feel better.”
“Well your fans are like a strange extended version of your family because, you know, they stand behind you and give you support. And a lot of the time they give you support when what you're doing isn't that successful. Your fans give you the courage to keep going.”
“If you’ve been around as long as I’ve been around, people grow up and associate good times with you.”
“I like big audiences - the bigger, the better. In a huge room like the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the people provide a certain energy. And I can probably see the faces of a thousand people from stage. We connect. The larger their energy, the better my performance - and the more I get back.”
"There was one night in Detroit three years ago where nothing went well... my wig fell off while I was dancing and I walked upstage and almost knocked myself out when I ran into a piece of equipment. It was a total mess. I was no good and it was just horrible. That's when you just stop the show, have a moment with the audience, then just pick it up and go from there. Like during the tour in Sacramento recently, I dropped the microphone. It bothered me for about a second, but I just kept going. Something like that happens once out of 100 shows."
“I’d like to thank my fans, because my fans are like Jet fans. You get so much crap for being one of my fans.”
"I like the shows, and every once in a while, if you're not too tired, being in a town is great because you can go see things or you can do something. But after a while, especially when I was doing the movie and then going back out on the road, I just could hardly get up for a couple of months. All I could do was get up, do the show, and kind of just lay low. We had this kind of program that we did. We'd go miniature golfing, we'd go to these painting places where you'd do pottery, and we would rent out movie theatres and go to the museums and rent boats. I mean there's fun things that you can do on the road."
"You know what surprises me every night is that so many people show up," she said. "I look around and I just see everyone up to the rafters. I come out and just look at it all and it surprises me. And it shouldn't. It just does."
"You get dressed, you put your makeup on, and you go out there and a lot of times all you can think of is that, 'Oh, my God, I'm really tired.'And then when I come down (on the chandelier) and I see the audience below, and then I actually get on the floor, and I start walking around and I see people and I see their faces, it's like a ping pong game or a tennis match, 'cause the energy goes back and forth. And so that's what makes me able to do it. When I go out and see everybody and they're excited ... I kind of get caught up in their excitement."
“The road is tough, but the audience makes it all worthwhile.”
"When I do my work—this is going to sound nuts to everybody—I feel like it's some sort of ministry. When I go on stage and I've got 30,000 people out there, I feel like I am touching and knowing everybody in the group. They give me a huge amount of energy, and I can get inside them and give them something from my work. And for me, that's all my work has ever been about."
“I may be very rich now, but I grew up poor and the knowledge of what that’s like is forever engrained in me, mentally and emotionally. Touring as I have been doing, I’ve probably met and talked to more so-called ‘ordinary’ men and women than have most politicians on Capitol Hill. I feel in touch with what people are thinking.”
*AGE and APPEARANCE*
“At home, in the comfort of my own four walls and I’ll wear sweat pants and a T-shirt, a sweatshirt over that, my suede boots with a fleece lining, hair up in a ponytail, and no makeup.”
“I’m clean but ratty. It’s such a luxury to be able to be a slob like that. Sometimes the simplest thing is the most exciting.”
“I think I would be a cool old lady - just an older version of myself.”
“I wear my clothes, my clothes don’t wear me.”
“Just sing the song, Cher! See what happens when you get old? You start to ramble!”
“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.”
“Women dress for women, then men. I dress for myself.”
“As you can see, I've received my academy handbook on how to dress like a serious actress.”
“I think I'll always look really good for what my age is, and that'll be fine.”
“I wish I could never, ever grow old. That's why I kill myself with exercise.”
“I go around grubby all the time; I just don’t have the patience, except when I am working, to put on makeup or look good.”
"I remember thinking as I tried on one outfit, 'Sonny's gonna have a heart attack when he sees me wearing this.' It was a loincloth with the side removed. When Sonny saw it, he was a little bit ... Italian."
"What am I supposed to do until I'm old enough to play the Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft parts? Go camping for 10 years?"
“I loved being 40. And maybe 19. 40 and 19. And I would just alternate.”
"At first I didn't like the idea of being in my 50s. In fact, I hated it. But you have to always be figuring out new ways to stay in the game, you know?"
"I feel really young. Sometimes you're really mature and can think things out and have a lot of insight, and sometimes you're totally immature. That's the way I am. I never feel more than about 10 years old. I always feel kind of immature in a way, and I like that."
Cher (backstage in the press room the night she won the Oscar): “People were like so weirded-out about this dress. I mean, Coca-Cola wanted to see it before they would allow me to come tonight, it was unbelievable! I feel it's quite appropriate for the evening.”
"I don't know why people are preoccupied with my cosmetic surgery. I really don't. It mystifies me that people would care what I do to my body. I remember when I was young, all the people that were really popular-Sandra Dee and Doris Day-were people I really couldn't identify with. So then you feel inhibited and you feel ashamed, or you feel less good because you don't look in style, so I think what you have to do is create your own style. Everyone can say that they hate what Michael Jackson has done to himself. But it's none of our business. Just because you become famous shouldn't deter you from doing what you want with your life. If you let that happen, then you become like Elvis, where you have no life at all. I'm not just talking about cosmetic changes; it translates into your everyday life. "
"I'm gonna have wrinkles real soon."
"I had a couple [tattoos] removed because I was getting bored. And it's just nice to have the space back."
"I don't know why I like tattoos so much. I know it's crazy. I can't defend them. I've had some of my tattoos for twenty years. I love getting them. The women at Red Devil do piercing too. Now, I'm really frightened of piercing. That seems so extreme - like noses and lips and belly buttons and nipples and tongues."
“We [Cher, Paulette Betts, Georganne] were all doing face masks or something, and Chastity said, 'You girls are like teenagers.' Our topics of conversation are even still the same. It's all about men and our bodies."
“You don't really think about it until you see a retrospective, like in my show there's lots of retrospective film and video, but I'm usually busy on stage and don't really see it. But because I have a TV monitor in my dressing room to make sure that I'm on stage on time, every once in a while I will look over and think, ‘Oh yeah, that was 30 years ago.’ ”
"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."
“Not bad for an old girl”
“Being 50 sucked - so much extra effort, just to retain the status quo. Do I enjoy getting older? No! I’m thrilled and delighted for those people who love the experience. I just don’t happen to be one of them."
"Being in my 50s sucks. There are no advantages about getting older, but it sure beats the alternative. But I don't really feel older. I don't have as much energy as when I was 30, but I don't imagine there are too many 30-year-olds who could keep up with me."
"Forty frigging years! Even I can’t believe it, and it’s my own life I’m talking about!"