Cybill Shepherd Quotes & Sayings

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe. — Cybill Shepherd

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit. — Cybill Shepherd

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed. — Cybill Shepherd

'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career. — Cybill Shepherd

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes). — Cybill Shepherd

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left. — Cybill Shepherd

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time. — Cybill Shepherd

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy ... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride. — Cybill Shepherd

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas. — Cybill Shepherd

When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being. — Cybill Shepherd

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet. — Cybill Shepherd

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery. — Cybill Shepherd

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about. — Cybill Shepherd

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria. — Cybill Shepherd

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me. — Cybill Shepherd

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity. — Cybill Shepherd

My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken. — Cybill Shepherd

I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side. — Cybill Shepherd

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around. — Cybill Shepherd

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment ... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family. — Cybill Shepherd

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. — Cybill Shepherd

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life. — Cybill Shepherd

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree. — Cybill Shepherd

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet. — Cybill Shepherd

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. — Cybill Shepherd

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me ... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing. — Cybill Shepherd

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. — Cybill Shepherd

One of my ex-husbands thought I had a breast job. They looked bigger. I just got the proper lingerie. — Cybill Shepherd

I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people. — Cybill Shepherd

I was born and bred to be a great flirt. — Cybill Shepherd

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. — Cybill Shepherd

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize. — Cybill Shepherd

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will. — Cybill Shepherd

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to. — Cybill Shepherd