Top 22 Sophie Tucker Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sophie Tucker

#1. Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.

Sophie Tucker

#2. I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

Lainie Kazan

#3. Time is gold.time is valuable.action speaks louder than words

Nicole Christie

#4. I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

Sophie Tucker

#5. Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Sophie Tucker

#6. Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#7. What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006]

Salman Rushdie

#8. From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

Sophie Tucker

#9. The key to longevity: keep breathing.

Sophie Tucker

#10. R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

Joe Zee

#11. I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better.

Sophie Tucker

#12. Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' ... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.

Sophie Tucker

#13. I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

Sophie Tucker

#14. From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs cash.

Sophie Tucker