Minogue Quotes & Sayings

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy. — Kylie Minogue

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver. — Barry Humphries

In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration. — Kenneth Minogue

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time. — Kylie Minogue

I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'. — Dannii Minogue

They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously. — Dannii Minogue

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history. — Kylie Minogue

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself. — Dannii Minogue

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. — Kenneth Minogue

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways. — Kylie Minogue

I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know. — Dannii Minogue

There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not ... she's got balls of steel. — Sharon Osbourne

However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy. — Kenneth Minogue

I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience. — Dannii Minogue

Let's just say that I am aware my style has meaning for some people. — Kylie Minogue

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence. — Kylie Minogue

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. — Kenneth Minogue

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy. — Kenneth Minogue

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself. — Kylie Minogue

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in. — Kylie Minogue

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress. — Kylie Minogue

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery. — Kylie Minogue

For it is a conspicuous feature of democracy, as it evolves from generation to generation, that it leads people increasingly to take up public positions on the private affairs of others ... each person thus becomes his own fantasy despot, disposing of others and their resources as he or she thinks desirable. — Kenneth Minogue

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out. — Dannii Minogue

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high. — Kenneth Minogue

At the turn of the twentieth century, the first wave of academic political scientists attacked some of their theoretical predecessors for the supposed mistake of assuming that human beings were entirely rational. This mistake had allegedly been made by politicians and theorists who had tried to appeal to voters in terms of purely rational argument. The new political scientists triumphantly pointed out that image, stereotype, the emotions arising in crowds, family background, and many other irrational factors were actually the main determinants of political behaviour. — Kenneth Minogue

Science turns whatever it studies into a natural process which is not affected by thinking, because thought is the capacity to construe the world in a variety of ways, and how human beings act depends on these unpredictable constructions. Human conduct thus lacks even the regularity found in the natural world. — Kenneth Minogue

The evident problem with democracy today is that the state is pre-empting - or "crowding out," as the economists say - our moral judgments. Rulers are adding moral judgments to the expanding schedule of powers they exercise. Nor does the state deal merely with principles. It is actually telling its subjects to do very specific things. Yet decisions about how we live are what we mean by "freedom," and freedom is incompatible with a moralizing state. That is why I am provoked to ask the question: can the moral life survive democracy? — Kenneth Minogue

We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other. — Dannii Minogue

I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.' — FKA Twigs

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me. — Ashley Madekwe

It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going. — Kenneth Minogue

To be conservative in politics is to take one's bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but by looking carefully at what the past reveals both about the kind of people we are and the problems that concern us. As we get older, we often become conservative in our habits, in our family practices, and in our recognition of the richness of our civilization, but this evolution of our character into a set of habits in no way blocks adventurousness. The old no less than the young may be found starting new enterprises, sailing around the world, and solving arcane academic questions. But it is in the ordinary business of life that we find our excitement, not in foolish collective dreams of political perfection. — Kenneth Minogue

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. — Kylie Minogue

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can. — Kylie Minogue

One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything. — Kylie Minogue

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is. — Kylie Minogue

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through. — Kylie Minogue

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. — Kylie Minogue

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim. — Kylie Minogue

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones. — Kylie Minogue

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different. — Dannii Minogue

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that. — Kylie Minogue

The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much. — Kenneth Minogue

Their [realists'] concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable. National interests are in some degree negotiable; rights, in principle, are not. International organizations such as the United Nations have not been conspicuously successful in bringing peace, and it is likely that the states of the world would become extremely nervous of any move to give the UN the overwhelming power needed to do this. — Kenneth Minogue

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy. — Kylie Minogue

If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are. — Kylie Minogue

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony. — Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30 ... you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose. — Michael Hutchence

It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone. — Dannii Minogue

Gorgeous, available, gotta be single, none of this messing about, good sense of humor, protective, definitely, confident, I mean because loads of guys won't put up with my kind of job. — Dannii Minogue

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself ... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it! — Kylie Minogue

I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy. — Kylie Minogue

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff ... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically. — Marilyn Manson

I just can't help but see things differently. — Kylie Minogue

Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine. Kylie Minogue is feminine. I am . . . femi-none. — Caitlin Moran

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally. — Kylie Minogue

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song. — Kylie Minogue

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold. — Dannii Minogue

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life. — Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It's a stupid name, Kylie, I just don't get it. — Noel Gallagher

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine. — Kylie Minogue

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed. — Kylie Minogue

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle. — Kylie Minogue

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great. — Kylie Minogue

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew. — Kylie Minogue

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment. — Kylie Minogue

I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah. — Kylie Minogue

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked. — Dannii Minogue

Freedom must mean that institutions have the autonomy to determine their own practices and admirations within the law. Otherwise, we confront the totalitarian demand that everyone should think the same thing and participate in the same admirations. — Kenneth Minogue

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada. — Dannii Minogue

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist. — Kylie Minogue

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it. — Kylie Minogue

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before. — Kylie Minogue

I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.' — Dannii Minogue

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything. — Kylie Minogue

I'm sure that love exists, even infinite, eternal love. — Kylie Minogue

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you. — Kylie Minogue

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. — Kenneth Minogue

When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet. — Andrew Buchan

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.' — Jane March

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks. — Kathy Lette

An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred. — Kenneth Minogue

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. — Dannii Minogue

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind. — Kylie Minogue

I could see myself as a glitter-hippie. — Kylie Minogue

I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both. — Kylie Minogue

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy. — Kylie Minogue

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now. — Kylie Minogue

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level. — Kylie Minogue

My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could ... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet. — Kylie Minogue

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much. — Kylie Minogue

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before. — Kylie Minogue

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently. — Dannii Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom. — Kylie Minogue

Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off. — Dannii Minogue

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music. — Nick Cave

As Hobbes remarked, in war, force and fraud are the cardinal virtues, and he regarded international relations as always potentially a condition of war. Cavour, one of the creators of a united Italy in the nineteenth century, is reported as remarking: 'What scoundrels we would be if we had done for ourselves what we have done for our country. — Kenneth Minogue

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world. — Kylie Minogue

I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen. — Dannii Minogue