Dusty Springfield Quotations

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

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It got very well reviewed, ... I don't think it ever sold that much, but it seems to have settled into this niche of respect, which I find very touching.

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

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

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.

Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

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.

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

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 reacted very well to all the treatment, and I got a clean bill of health,

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.