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Top 15 Shirley Bassey Quotes (2024 Update)

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I’m not getting old. I’m getting better.”

1. “I’m not getting old. I’m getting better.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.”

2. “I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “You want success, and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.”

3. “You want success, and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “When I started singing, I couldn’t be shut up.”

4. “When I started singing, I couldn’t be shut up.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!”

5. “How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.”

6. “I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.”

— Shirley Bassey

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Shirley Bassey Quote: “It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.”

7. “It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.”

8. “I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.”

9. “I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.”

10. “I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I’m always being asked if I watch ‘The X Factor,’ and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.”

11. “I’m always being asked if I watch ‘The X Factor,’ and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.”

12. “I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.”

13. “In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.”

14. “I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.”

— Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quote: “I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

15. “I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

— Shirley Bassey

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