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I'm
quite sensible. And I wear the heels!
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Everybody
says to me Why don't you ever smile? I don't like it
when I smile because I get dimples.
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When
I was little, I always thought that I want to be
famous.
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I
want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to
keep people out!
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I'm
still me even after all that's happened.
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If I
set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for
all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that
we stay true to ourselves.
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I'd
most like to have bigger boobs and unlimited spending
at Gucci.
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I'd
really wannabe able to put a smile on people's faces
with my music.
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I'd
really wanna hang out with Juliette Lewis, she's smart
and spunky.
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But
I'd really wanna steam it up with Ray Liotta. He's not
Brad Pitt, - good looking, but he's real sexy.
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Living
it up means spending wicked amounts of money, shopping
in excess and taking my family on a huge outing.
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I am always, always a lady. Whatever I do.
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My
crystal ball tells me I'll be sensible with success and not squander all my money.
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I
always looked up to Lady Diana - she spent so much
time in the public eye, but still brought up her kids,
she did loads of charity work, she was glamorous and
seemed like a nice person.
- There's always been a side of me that refused to
conform, only do what I'm comfortable with.
- Some Blokes think I am a bit stand offish so it's
hard for me to get a guy, unless I'm with Mel B. She
goes straight over to whoever I fancy and chats them
up for me!
- I try to go to the
gym, but when I'm not working,
I'm shopping.
- I look like crap without
makeup.
- Having an off day? Slap on some lipstick and a pair
of shades!
- If you're going to kiss a boy, make sure you're
wearing stay-on lipstick!
- If you haven't got it fake
it! Too short? Wear big
high heels, but do practice walking!
- Want to break the ice but don't know
how? Have a
guess at his name - you never know!
- Drink what ever you like - just so long as it
co-ordinates with your nail varnish!
- We're not claiming to be soul
divas, we're just
having a laugh.
- I wear the heels and carry a
handbag. Looking miserable. Everybody says to me, why don't I ever
smile? I don't like it when I do smile because I get
dimples.
- Sometimes I get a bit annoyed because the others are
a bit irrational-they just think something and do
it-whereas I will think about he consequences.
- I don't know much
about football. I know what a goal is, which is
surely the main thing about football.
- We've passed through
very hard times, but when we taste our issues
and when we hear our fans screaming for us, it's
amazing.
- On hearing that
Tamzin Outhwaite wouldn't mind a night with
husband David: 'Firstly, Tamzin who, secondly, I
think it's disrespectful, and thirdly, as if,
love.'
- I'd love to duet
with someone in the hip-hop world such as Dr Dre.
- I'm still me even
after all that's happened.
- There are so many
people out there taking the p*ss out of me that
if I can't take the p*ss out of myself there's
something going wrong.
- I don't have a nanny
or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for
one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I
cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the
housework in the evening.
- I'll just go into
the studio - as I always have with Brooklyn -
with one under each arm.' (But maybe not now she
has been dropped from her record label...)
- You have to remember
that when you are a performer you become a
celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's
not that important.
- My family is my
first priority but I don't think that means I
should have to give up work. I am lucky that
David is very supportive.
- I dress sexily - but
not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way.'
- I'm not
materialistic. I believe in presents from the
heart, like a drawing that a child does.
- I've got Girl Power
because I was engaged, but broke away and found
myself and my friends when I realised he wasn't
right for me.
- There's no room for
bitchiness in this group.
- We've had some
really rough time, and when we do taste the high
life, when we hear kids screaming, we really
appreciate it.
- We want to be a
household name. We want to be a Fairy Liquid or
Ajax.
- How do I cope with
my homesickness? I just have a breakdown and cry
a lot.
- We're not claiming
to be soul divas, we're just having a laugh.
- We want to be
positive role models for young girls and women.
- I don't scream and
shout at the other Girls as we all know that
sometimes we're unreasonable because we're all
so knackered.
- When I was little I
always thought I wanted to be famous. But you
could never dream of what's happened to us. It's
a bit out of the ordinary.
- I never wear last
season's shoes!
- I
don't feel the need to prove myself. I just want to
be with the family. I’m glad I feel like that
because for so long I felt so competitive. But in
the past four or five months, I’ve thought to
myself, ‘Hang on a minute. I’ve worked really
hard to earn the money I have.’ Now I want to
enjoy myself and have fun with my kids.
- To me, it’s just like
a collection of women. That’s just how me and
David see all this. I honestly couldn’t tell you
all their names. David feels the same as me. People
have said we should have sat in and sorted things
out, but the bottom line is we’d nothing to sort
out.
- There are always things
that could be worse. I’m going to Peru for Sport
Relief and I know there are cynical b******s
who’ll think, ‘Oh, there she goes with her
Mother Teresa act.’ But what’s happening there,
that is a real trauma. That really puts things in
perspective.
- I know for a fact
David’s been faithful to me, I know that deep
inside. The most important thing through all this is
that I know the truth. And my family know the truth.
We are just carrying on. Me and David have always
been very compatible. We’re going to get old
together. We have a laugh.
- It was great being in
the Spice Girls, we achieved so much. But being on
my own, I can do what I like when I like.
- To have a No.1 album is
a dream. A single would be great at No.1 - but I
think the pressure is off now, no-one expects me to
get a No.1. I think it'll be more about the music
this time and less about the media hype.
- In my opinion, a dream
band would consist of Jennifer Lopez, Britney,
myself, Dr Dre and Snoop! I'd have Jennifer because
I think she's a great performer and a great dancer.
And Dre & Snoop because I'm a big R'n'B fan. And
our popiness and their cool, tough hip-hop edge
would be quite interesting.
- We're not into the Harry
Potter craze - I haven't read the books. Brooklyn
knows about Harry Potter, but at the moment he's
into dinosaurs in a big way!
- I think fame has
probably made me more cynical. I used to think it
was enough to make a great record, whereas now I
think it isn't enough.
- We were filming CD:UK -
it was a pre-record, I was dressed as a good girl,
and my boobs fell out! Luckily the tape was
well-and-truly thrown away - or so they say!
- I eat chicken sometimes
and I eat fish so I'm not a true veggie, but I
haven't eaten red meat for about 16 years. It's
mainly because I just don't like it, and Brooklyn
doesn't eat red meat either.
- I was never particularly
academic; never majorly intelligent. That's my one
regret - I wish I'd had a better education. I'd be
really interested in something like psychology.
- David's a groupie -
after the first day he took me out, he went and
bought the CD to do some research.
- And it was like, Bloody
hell. As I walked in these four-inch heels and hot
pants the lights went psychedelic and it took me a
second or two to work out it wasn't pyrotechnics, it
was photographers. Oh great. That's it, then. And my
shorts are riding up my crotch but with the world's
press looking at you, you can hardly start pulling
at them.
- At this point, Clarissa
Dickson-Wright turned to me and said something along
the lines of so do you eat anything else except
lettuce leaves? And everybody laughed. And I wanted
to stick up for myself and yet still be respectful.
What if I'd turned round and said to her so do you
eat anything except chips and pizza? Imagine the
public outcry. You're allowed to take the piss out
of being thin. You're not allowed to say anything
about people being fat.
- So I'm really trying to
have fun, but having fun (in Como) is like throwing
a party in a crematorium, it's hard work. I remember
walking to our room and I'm eating a banana, and
outside our room was this statue of a naked man, so
me trying to be light-hearted, I hung my banana skin
over his testicles. Well, I laughed.
- The only thing to do, I
decided, was to brazen it out. After all, we
couldn't stay in the house forever. So I slapped on
my make-up and just thought, Do it. Just do it. Like
a job. So we went out, hand-in-hand, me smiling like
a bloody gibbon, and just as I got in the car I gave
David's bottom a squeeze. That's what she said he
did to her. No chance (the British press) would get
the irony, but it did me good.
- We were used to seeing
out teenage fans dressed up as Sporty and Baby and
Ginger and Scary (and even some as Posh, but not so
many) but in America the mums dressed up as well.
And let me tell you a fat fifty-year-old wearing
bunches and a white miniskirt is not a pretty sight.
- The original shoes that
went with the outfit were black patent and came from
a cheap shop in Carnaby Street and one of the heels
kept falling off so I was always having to glue it
back on. That dress, the one everyone said was a
little Gucci dress, was never a little Gucci dress.
The material and paying to have it made cost no more
than 20 pounds.
- In actual fact, I quite
liked Barry Manilow and still do, not like Cliff
Richard who I couldn't stand even then. He should
have stayed on that bloody bus and carried on with
his summer holiday.
- And I'll never forget
that last dress rehearsal. I was standing, at the
back of course, and Betty Laine came up to me and
said 'You're so fat I'm going to have to fly you in.
I'm going to have to get you in on a crane because
you're such a roly-poly'. Message to the underdog: I
am the most successful person who has ever come out
of Laine's. It doesn't matter what you look like,
it's all about hard work, determination and
self-belief.
- Poor Louise had had a
really long labour and in the end they'd had to pull
the baby out with forceps, so she had this strange,
cone-shaped head. And everyone's saying, 'Isn't she
beautiful?' and I'm thinking, No, she isn't.
- I wasn't naturally a
moody cow. I realize now it was just a defence
mechanism that came from being spotty and not having
friends.
- I was…always being
told I was the useless one, the one Spice Girl who
had less talent than a coconut.
- I've just got a
real dry sense of humour and I take the piss a lot.
I think people might find me funny because I'm
different to what they're expecting. People expect
me to be a bit up my own arse. A lot of famous
people are like that - they've really got their
heads rammed up their own arses.
- People are saying she
can't really sing, she can't do that ... I've been
on tour for a year singing live. What do I have to
prove? If people don't think I can sing, fine, Piss
off and don't buy my record.
- My family really
inspires me. I was in the US when I wrote the album,
working with some amazing songwriters. A lot is
through my own experience - a lot of them are love
songs. Mind of Its Own is out in Valentine's week.
- If it all ended
tomorrow, I'd like to write songs for someone else.
I'd like to still be involved in music or production
of some sort.
- David and I watch the
reality show Fear Factor in bed. Isn't that funny?
I'm sure people assume that we're watching porn.
- The one thing they can't
get right here is the grapes because they all have
pips in. I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be
made compulsory at 15.
- Geri does a lot of
shopping, even now in second-hand shops and she gets
some absolutely brilliant stuff! She really does coz
she's good in rummaging through and finding good
bargains but I don't have the patience to do that.
- This person the press
make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as
well.
- Don't believe everything
they write in the press. They said I wear cheap make
up ... which I don't!
- It won't be long before
I go arse over tit, on that shiny floor.
- Make them pay your legal
fee's MacDonalds!
- It's not about
competition. You should see me with a football -
there's no competition at all" - maintaining
that she and David are not rivals.
- My Spanish is improving
and I can now ask: 'Dónde Gucci?' ('Where is
Gucci?'). I also can say: 'Tienes un Bentley?' ('Do
you have a Bentley?')".
- David's got more
personality than people think and he's very deep and
spiritual. He always knows how to dress, that was
part of his appeal originally. We've got matching
dogs, matching watches, similar wardrobes, matchings
Jags. I know it´s tacky, but it makes me laugh.
- It's a wonder England
ever did away with public executions or throwing old
cabbages and turnips at people in stocks. There's
clearly a market for it.
- I'm never gonna please everybody, so i just have to
please myself.
- David doesn't ever have any hair, cos he has a sack,
back and crack.
- I may not have made the best judgement with the
employees I have hired, but David wasn't a bad choice.
- I have hair extensions. I wear makeup. I watch what
I eat. Nothing's natural with me. I work at it to make
the best of myself. And I think that's all you can do.
- Every Sunday there is some wannabe alleging
something about somone, it's an industry in itself.
- I want to be bigger than persil automatic. (about
the fame)
- Poor Louise had had a really long labour and in the
end they'd had to pull the baby out with forceps, so
she had this strange, cone-shaped head. And everyone's
saying, 'Isn't she beautiful?' and I'm thinking, No,
she isn't.
- And when me and david get into bed, it's like a
velcro affect.
- Don't look at my legs, they're terribly hairy.
- And I said: David! This is massive!...and...errmm...the
house.
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