Helen Reddyis a famous Actress from Australia, she is 81 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.
35 Famous quotes by Helen Reddy
"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive"
"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"
"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"
"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here"
"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work"
"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"
"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"
"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States"
"I am woman, hear me roar"
"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day"
"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"
"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!"
"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"
"I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage"
"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"
"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems"
"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials"
"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it"
"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"
"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life"
"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"
"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact"
"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"
"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"
"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore"
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"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"
"I like music to soothe me"
"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists"
"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman"
"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"
"I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small"
"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend"
"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time"
"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"
