Dusty Springfield Quotes

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.