Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself. "

Related Quotes:

" A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject. "

" Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. "

" I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself. "

" I love men and I like to get their attention. "

" I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. "

" The audience has always been my best director. "

" I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. "

" This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment. "

" The public has become my fairy godmother. "

" Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. "

" I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child. "

" I am the original 'Material Girl.' "

" I have to keep testing myself. "

" When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business. "

" People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as. "

" You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy. "

" When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth. "

" I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land. "

" Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat. "

" My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. "

" I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. "

" Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. "

" We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. "

" I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. "

" I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. "

" I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that. "

" I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. "

" I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. "

" Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living. "

" Even as a child, I found a way to survive. "