Cher Quotes

I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.