Cilla Black Quotes
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There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
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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 can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.
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I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.
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I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
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I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
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In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.
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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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The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
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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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'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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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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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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I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
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There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.
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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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I intend to grow old very disgracefully.
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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 see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.
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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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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.