Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
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.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
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.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
In this house, I’m not famous. Because the dog doesn’t care. And my children hopefully appreciate me more for our regular interaction and conversations,
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
If it’s dancing, or anything else in life my darling, that matters to you, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.