Cher quotes:

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

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

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

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 only answer to two people, myself and God.

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

People are negative no matter what you do.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

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

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 kill myself for my body.

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.

The road is a nasty place and lonely.

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

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

I'm not old-fashioned.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable

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

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

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

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

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.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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

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

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

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

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

Come hell or water high you'll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

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 tits on my back, they're mine!

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

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

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

To me marriage is for five or ten years

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

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

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

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

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

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