Quotes from 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?

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

I kill myself for my body.

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

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.

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

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

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

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

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

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

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

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

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

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

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

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.

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of 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.

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

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.

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

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