Facts about Helen Reddy

Occup.	Actress
From	Australia
Born	October 25, 1941
Age	83 years

Summary

Helen Reddy is a famous Actress from Australia, she is 83 years old and still alive, born October 25, 1941.

Zodiac:

She is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 35 quotes who is written / told by Helen, under the main topic Wedding.

Filmography:

1977 Pete's Dragon (Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Family)
1974 Airport 1975 (Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller)

35 Famous quotes by Helen Reddy

"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day"

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"I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small"

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"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend"

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"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time"

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"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist"

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"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive"

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"I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry"

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"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business"

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"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here"

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"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work"

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"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label"

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"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them"

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"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States"

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"I am woman, hear me roar"

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"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for"

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"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"

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"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without"

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"I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage"

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"I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13"

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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems"

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"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials"

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"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it"

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"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music"

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"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life"

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"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship"

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"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact"

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"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it"

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"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it"

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"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore"

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"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"

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"It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell"

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"I like music to soothe me"

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"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists"

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"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman"

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"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time"

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