93 Quotes by Cilla Black

I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!'

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.