110+ Cher Quotes On Aging, Iconic And Innovative

Cher is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in 1965 as part of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher. She is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Cher on aging, life, love.

Top 10 Cher Quotes

1. Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
2. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
3. 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.
4. For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
5. 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.
6. Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.
7. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
8. If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
9. If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.
10. 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.

Cher Short Quotes

• Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
• Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
• I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
• Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
• If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
• Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
• Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.
• You make good coffee . . . You're a slob, but you make good coffee.
• The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.
• Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

Cher Quotes About Life

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. — Cher

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

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

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

Do you believe in life after love? — 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. — Cher

Cher Quotes About Love

Men are a luxury, not a necessity. — Cher

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! — Cher

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people. — Cher

Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable. — Cher

Cher Quotes About Girl

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. — Cher

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! — Cher

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

Cher Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength. — Cher

It doesn't always turn out. 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. — Cher

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential. — Cher

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. — Cher

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

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

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. — Cher

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

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

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. — Cher

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? — Cher

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

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex. — Cher

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value. — Cher

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

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

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

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. — Cher

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. — Cher

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. — Cher

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

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

I only answer to two people, myself and God. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle. — Cher

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. — Cher

You know, honey, husbands come and go but I'm still Cher at the end of the day. — Cher

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. — Cher

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful. — Cher

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world. — Cher

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

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet. — Cher

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. — Cher

Women are the real architects of society. — Cher

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

To me marriage is for five or ten years — Cher

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

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. — Cher

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

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud. — Cher

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

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

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine. — Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails. — Cher

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

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

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

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. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did. — Cher

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. — Cher

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

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

If you can give it, I can take it 'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight So if you're so tough, come on and prove it Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it Tonight you're gonna go down in flames Just like Jesse James — Cher

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker. — Cher

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. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

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

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

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

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different. — Cher

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

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. — Cher

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. — Cher

Life Lessons by Cher

1. Cher has taught us to never give up and to keep striving for our goals no matter how hard it may seem. She has shown us that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.
2. Cher has also taught us the importance of staying true to ourselves and to never compromise our values or beliefs. She has shown us that success is possible when we stay true to who we are.
3. Lastly, Cher has taught us the power of resilience and to never give up in the face of adversity. She has shown us that no matter what life throws at us, we can always find a way to persevere and come out stronger.