Cilla Black Quotes
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Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!
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I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.
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In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
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Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in.
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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 wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
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I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
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The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
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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 cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
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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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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
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I tried never to take anything for granted.
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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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There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.
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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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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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'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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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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If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.
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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 intend to grow old very disgracefully.
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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.