Dusty Springfield Quotes

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

Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

I couldn't stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know that I'm as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

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

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

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

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

I'd love to retouch my whole life.

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

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

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

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

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

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

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

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