Shirley Bassey

No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I’ve found happiness in my work, but not in my private life. I had to take from my private life to make my public life successful. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. I was happy in Cardiff. I had a great time. Every Thursday there was a factory club; darts, dancing. I was happy until success entered my life, and then it was all downhill. Success spoilt me. It took away my happiness. My success became a barrier with my family. They couldn’t relate to me, and I couldn’t relate to them.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I don’t pop my cork for every man I see.

I think you have to leave a lot to the imagination!

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.

Ahh, I’m from Canada so… no. I’m a Northern Belle.

It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, ‘if this is what it takes to win, it’s not worth it.’

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don’t beat around the bush.

Chris Rock once said something that was really interesting. He said, “Women would run the world if they didn’t hate each other.” That’s the only thing preventing us from running this entire planet, that we hate each other!

I think they can co-exist. You don’t have to put one down for another. I’ve been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won’t take away from the music.

I’ve just got to get that album out. I have to get it out, if it’s the last thing I do.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

I’m more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I’m mostly an improviser, though I haven’t improvised in awhile.

Abstaining from sex had to zen my body. I ain’t giving, so don’t ask, I don’t lend my body. He gotta be king status to get in my body.

There are so few great talents, it’s always a discovery when you find the one.