34 Quotes by Shirley Bassey

I’ve always been the breadwinner and men don’t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn’t like it a bit.

I’m too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.

I’m always being asked if I watch ‘The X Factor,’ and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.