Top 100 Cher Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.”

— Cher

52. “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.”

— Cher

53. “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

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

— Cher

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

— Cher

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

— Cher

57. “Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.”

— Cher

58. “Don’t take your toys inside just because it’s raining.”

— Cher

59. “I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door.”

— Cher

60. “It’s a dirty job being ridiculous, but I’ll do it.”

— Cher

61. “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.”

— Cher

62. “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.”

— Cher

63. “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!”

— Cher

64. “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.”

— Cher

65. “I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’”

— Cher

66. “Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.”

— Cher

67. “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

68. “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.”

— Cher

69. “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

70. “I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.”

— Cher

71. “Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.”

— Cher

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

— Cher

73. “Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.”

— Cher

74. “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

75. “You don’t have to be smart to act – look at the outgoing president of the United States.”

— Cher

76. “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

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

— Cher

78. “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

79. “Singing is like going to a party at someone else’s house. Acting is like having the party at your house.”

— Cher

80. “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.”

— Cher

81. “Anyone who’s a great kisser I’m always interested in.”

— Cher

82. “Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them – even if it’s not logical.”

— Cher

83. “I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.”

— Cher

84. “I’m just the worst little Buddhist in town.”

— Cher

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

— Cher

86. “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

87. “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

88. “Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.”

— Cher

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

— Cher

90. “Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.”

— Cher

91. “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

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

— Cher

93. “The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.”

— Cher

94. “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.’”

— Cher

95. “Going hungry never bothered me – it was having no clothes.”

— Cher

96. “Christian said he’d call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.”

— Cher

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I’ve had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.”

— Cher

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

— Cher