Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
If you can not join them, beat them.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
I’m attracted to myths.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.