All Shirley Bassey Quotes
- No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. Anymore
- 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… Almost Anything
- I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating. Eating
- You don't get older, you get better. Better
- I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. Age
- 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… Audience
- Diamonds never leave you... men do! Diamond
- 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… Apart
- You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention. Attention
- 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… Accept
- 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… Afraid
- I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage. Acts
- I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. All