"I kill myself for my body."

"To me marriage is for 5 or 10 years."

"Women are the real architects of society."

"I only answer to two people, myself and God."

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

"After the holocaust, there will still be cockroaches and Cher."

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

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

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

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

"In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete."

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

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

"Husbands are like fires, they go out when left unattended."

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

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

"If I'd wanted to do drugs, I'd have done them. I just don't like them. They're stupid."

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

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

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

"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."

"They are my tits and if I wanna have them put on my back that is my own damn business."

"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 life."

"I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around."

"What's wrong with swapping boyfriends? After I've found out what a man is like... why not let another girl have him."

"Women have to harness their power - its 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.

"Fame, work, marriage and life get complicated like a ball of knotted gold chain."

"I figure what's the worst that could happen? I could fail. I've done that."

"I'm not afraid to look ridiculous. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it."

"Maybe I'm not talented. Maybe I'm just the Dinah Shore of the sixties. The square people think I'm too hip, and the hip people think I'm too square. And nobody likes my choice of men - everybody thinks I'm f*cking the Mormon Tabernacle Choir."

"If you're going to be an artist, and you're going to have a chance to be great, you have to risk looking foolish in high places sometimes."

"It's really a joke that my whole life people thought I was unattractive until now - when I'm getting too old to really be attractive."

"Hollywood isn't comfortable with new ideas. They like to lock you into a box so they don't have to think about you anymore. You're a type, not a person."

"Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important."

"I wouldn't give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously."

"For years I'd been popular in America not because of my talent but because I was famous."

"I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails."

"Fourteen. The first boy I ever slept with - oh, the poor boy, I was really in love with him. He kept bothering me ... So we did it. "Now you go home and don't ever talk to me again. That's it, OK?" So he left. My next boyfriend was 35."

"Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not."

"I don't smoke. I don't drink to speak of. I don't take drugs at all. I take care of my two children. I've been married twice, once for eleven years and once for three. I don't go out with more than one man at a time. But you know what it is: I dress strange."