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

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

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

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

"Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own."

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

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

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

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

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

"I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage."

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

"Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time."

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

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

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

"Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world."

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

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

"I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people."

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."