If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. Cher More Quotes by Cher More Quotes From Cher My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. Cher creative mother art Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value. Cher clueless peaceful needs I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous. Cher opinion knows fame 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. Cher floating forever years I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands. Cher my-husband stills husband There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.' Cher conferences adorable thinking Going hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes. Cher bothered hungry clothes I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen. Cher car politics home Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in. Cher kissing inspirational I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else. Cher growing-up daughter children Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with. Cher first-person persons firsts You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States. Cher united-states smart president I'm going to have wrinkles really soon Cher wrinkles Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did. Cher be-good credibility wanted I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different. Cher being-different be-good wanted Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable. Cher imagine able thinking The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him. Cher Women are the real architects of society. Cher women-are women society real I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am. Cher i-am looking me looking-back My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me. Cher doing me passion time