Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My mom was my best friend.
I prefer adventure to comfort.
Not all circus animals are unhappy.
I live a normal life. A quiet life.
Nobody can imagine how much I've suffered.
I've had an unusual career path for a princess.
Circus is the magic you should show your children.
I want to keep fit. I don't want to become a wreck.
I never thought I could sing, but apparently I can.
I've been in the spotlight since the day I was born.
I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.
I'm just a normal person made of flesh and blood like anybody.
I got sick of modeling and I was afraid of getting overexposed.
I love my fragrance like I love my records. My perfume is myself.
It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.
My choices and my decisions belong to me. I even accept my errors.
Being a mother is the only true meaning in my life. It's everything.
Asian elephants have always worked with people and they like company.
My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'
Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.
The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.
If you have 20,000 people and they like you, they give you their support, that's so gratifying.
With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.
My all-time hero is Tina Turner. Her energy, her attitude, her shows. She's just a great performer.
You have to help people who are living with AIDS. Help them to live as dignified a life as they can.
I used to love playing paper dolls with my mother - she would cut them out and I would dress the dolls.
When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.
I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.
Nobody has really tried to understand me or my behaviour, which just reflected my decision to enjoy life to the full.
You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.
I am delighted to be an artist and follow in my mother's footsteps, even though I know I am not allowed to make a single mistake.
I'm quite happy to perform my official duties. But on the other hand, I've always wanted to be independent and to have my own career.
The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.
It's hard growing up in the limelight. People invent stories. They call me a man-eater. An innocent date with a friend becomes a major scandal.
We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi try to steal pictures.
I was always the headstrong child in the family. My mother and father called me a rebel at 2 years old. But they always accepted me as an individual.
You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals, they walk away.
My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we three kids are talking to each other, we use English.
The truth is that I'm a very down-to-earth person. I've been called a brat but that's an insult to my parents. They didn't raise a brat. I'm not an immature, insensitive person.
My relationship with Pauline is special. She knows I will always be there to hold her hand. We have the same expressions and gestures. I tell her sometimes, 'you are my mini me.'
Every mother in the world knows this feeling one day... of emptiness, a time comes where you feel a little less useful because you're no longer running left and right. Life no longer has the same rhythm.
People imagine that everything is easy when you're a princess, but we're still human beings. Some of my friends don't want to go out with me anymore - to go to a restaurant, I have to use a different door.
Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working together to give a smile. It's a world where people help one another. It's the only show where a family, everyone from children to their grandmothers, can sit together and all be entertained by the same thing.