Shirley Bassey Quotes

I’m not getting old. I’m getting better.

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.

I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

When I started singing, I couldn’t be shut up.

Diamonds never leave you… men do!

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

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.

You should never say “never.”

I’d like to run away
From you,
But if you didn’t come
And find me …
I would die.

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.

You don’t get older, you get better.

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.

You want success and then when you do get it, you don’t want it because of the attention.

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.

I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.