Cher is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entertainer. She was born Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere on May 20, 1946 in El Centro, California.

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




• "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him."




• "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."




• "Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."




• "If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?"




• "Women are the real architects of society."




• "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 won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks."




• "You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States."




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




• "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!"