Cilla Black Quotes
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I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
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Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
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You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
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I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.
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I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
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If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.
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I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.
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I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
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The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.
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I tried never to take anything for granted.
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It's a business, and I'm a product. Terrible, isn't it?
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I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'
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The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
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In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
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'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.
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There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.
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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
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If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
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After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.
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Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.
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I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
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I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
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I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.
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Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.