Top 100 Imelda Quotes

#1. I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #8812
#2. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #19177
#3. I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #35174
#4. Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #52296
#5. It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #54504
#6. I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #63048
#7. I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #70293
#8. I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #109311
#9. I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #115472
#10. The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #135129
#11. I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #138128
#12. To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #147404
#13. I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #152417
#14. More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #152647
#15. I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #156042
#16. For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #166234
#17. I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #169871
#18. Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #171203
#19. My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #178691
#20. Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.

Stephen J. Solarz

Imelda Quotes #185387
#21. I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,' Suki shrugged by way of explanation.

Sarah Alderson

Imelda Quotes #192053
#22. I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #214375
#23. When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #216000
#24. President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #221986
#25. You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #239440
#26. You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #252737
#27. I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #259824
#28. I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #267268
#29. I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really ... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #282325
#30. A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #300241
#31. Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive
must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #316857
#32. I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #333360
#33. If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #342812
#34. Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #346828
#35. I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #350855
#36. I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #352057
#37. if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.

Imelda Akmal

Imelda Quotes #362678
#38. We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #363914
#39. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #383450
#40. I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #434209
#41. I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #438035
#42. Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

Imelda Lambertini

Imelda Quotes #439374
#43. God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #462460
#44. I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #477197
#45. I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #499436
#46. I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #501803
#47. I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #509082
#48. In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #517564
#49. Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #522108
#50. I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #546456
#51. At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #550550
#52. They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #556066
#53. The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #558483
#54. Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #561239
#55. I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #563178
#56. I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war ... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #566294
#57. There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #590060
#58. 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #591439
#59. It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #595365
#60. It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #608368
#61. Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #609718
#62. I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #612686
#63. Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #613449
#64. I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #614399
#65. I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #634172
#66. I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #654726
#67. Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #677818
#68. I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #682671
#69. I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #686410
#70. My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #688173
#71. I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #692509
#72. Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #697894
#73. I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #726759
#74. I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #728946
#75. The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #732283
#76. What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #740430
#77. I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #744828
#78. I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #780742
#79. Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #786044
#80. I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #788555
#81. I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #792101
#82. I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #802576
#83. My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

Michael Moritz

Imelda Quotes #816086
#84. I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #827602
#85. Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #833354
#86. A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #833999
#87. I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #835984
#88. Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #852131
#89. I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #857269
#90. I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #861736
#91. a Fate in the area and light them up like a flare so the Fate'll take care of the problem." Her gut sinking as she thought of Padre Vega, Imelda said, "What would that look like?" "I have no idea,

Sara King

Imelda Quotes #863395
#92. I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #864126
#93. I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #871072
#94. Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #873272
#95. Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #880370
#96. I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #883497
#97. I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

Imelda May

Imelda Quotes #884187
#98. I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #884449
#99. They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Quotes #888902
#100. Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Imelda Staunton

Imelda Quotes #890511

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