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Shirley Bassey Quotes

Shirley Bassey Quotes.

I’m not getting old. I’m getting better.
Shirley Bassey
When you live in a safe place like Monte Carlo, you can walk home at any time of the night and you don’t have to worry. I don’t feel at risk there. If I drive myself, I can leave the car doors unlocked.
Shirley Bassey
I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
Shirley Bassey
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
Shirley Bassey
When I started singing, I couldn’t be shut up.
Shirley Bassey
Diamonds never leave you… men do!
Shirley Bassey
I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
Shirley Bassey
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.
Shirley Bassey
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Shirley Bassey
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 show business.
Shirley Bassey
You should never say “never.”
Shirley Bassey
I’d like to run away
From you,
But if you didn’t come
And find me …
I would die.
Shirley Bassey
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 I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.
Shirley Bassey
You don’t get older, you get better.
Shirley Bassey
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 fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey
You want success and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.
Shirley Bassey
I’m always being asked if I watch ‘The X Factor,’ and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.
Shirley Bassey
I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.
Shirley Bassey