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

"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 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 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."

"Maybe I'm not talented. Maybe I'm just the Dinah Shore of the sixties. The square people think I'm too hip, and the hip people think I'm too square. And nobody likes my choice of men - everybody thinks I'm fucking the Mormon Tabernacle Choir."

"Women are the real architects of society."

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

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

"I'm a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not."

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

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

"They are my tits and if I wanna have them put on my back that is my own damn business."

"I figure what's the worst that could happen? I could fail. I've done that."

"I'm not afraid to look ridiculous. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it."

"If you're going to be an artist, and you're going to have a chance to be great, you have to risk looking foolish in high places sometimes."

"Hollywood isn't comfortable with new ideas. They like to lock you into a box so they don't have to think about you anymore. You're a type, not a person."

"It's really a joke that my whole life people thought I was unattractive until now - when I'm getting too old to really be attractive."

"Fourteen. The first boy I ever slept with - oh, the poor boy, I was really in love with him. He kept bothering me ... So we did it. "Now you go home and don't ever talk to me again. That's it, OK?" So he left. My next boyfriend was 35."

"For years I'd been popular in America not because of my talent but because I was famous."

"If I'd wanted to do drugs, I'd have done them. I just don't like them. They're stupid."

"You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States." (on Ronald Reagan)

"We can't all be all things."

"Fame, work, marriage and life get complicated like a ball of knotted gold chain."

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

"After the holocaust, there will still be cockroaches and 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."

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

"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."

"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 only answer to two people, myself and God."

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

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

"Having sex with someone you're not crazy about - I don't think I'm grown up enough."

"I don't smoke. I don't drink to speak off. I don't take drugs at all. I take care of my two children. I've been married twice, once for eleven years and once for three. I don't go out with more than one man at a time. But you know what it is: I dress strange."

"People thought I was sleeping with the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They believe what they want to believe."

"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!"

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

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

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

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

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

 

Music DVDs

 

Sonny & Cher albums