Post by oh my cher on Apr 30, 2006 18:36:34 GMT -5
I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house. When you go to someone else's house for a party, it's not your responsibility at all, but when you have the party at your own house, there's a lot of responsibility. Everyone has to have a good time. So for me, acting is deeper.
In this business you have to be tough, and if someone pushes me really far I can certainly be impossible. I've always said, 'if you're nice they walk over you and if you stand up for yourself they call you a bitch.'
I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.
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.
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.
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. - People Magazine 7/1/85.
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.
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
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 only answer to two people, myself and God.
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'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'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
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'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
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?
In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
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.
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing-and then marry him.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Women are the real architects of society.
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.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
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.
In this business you have to be tough, and if someone pushes me really far I can certainly be impossible. I've always said, 'if you're nice they walk over you and if you stand up for yourself they call you a bitch.'
I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.
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.
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.
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. - People Magazine 7/1/85.
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.
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
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 only answer to two people, myself and God.
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'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'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
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'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
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?
In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
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.
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing-and then marry him.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Women are the real architects of society.
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.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
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.