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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
— Imelda Marcos
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
— Imelda Marcos
The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
— Imelda Marcos
I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
— Imelda Marcos
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
— Imelda Marcos
I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
— Imelda Staunton
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
— Imelda May
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
— Imelda May
I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
— Imelda May
I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
— Imelda May
Oh my god, it's good to be alive!
— Imelda May
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
— Imelda Marcos
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
— Imelda Marcos
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
— Imelda Marcos
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.
— Stephen J. Solarz
If the shoe fits, buy it.
— Imelda Marcos
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
— Imelda Marcos
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
— Imelda Marcos
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
— Imelda Marcos
For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
— Imelda Staunton
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
— Imelda Marcos
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
— Imelda Marcos
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
— Imelda Marcos
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
— Imelda Marcos
I am beyond logic and rationality.
— Imelda Marcos
I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
— Imelda Staunton
A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
— Imelda Staunton
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
— Imelda Marcos
The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
— Imelda Marcos
I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
— Imelda May
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
— Imelda Staunton
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
— Imelda May
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
— Imelda Marcos
Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?
— Imelda Lambertini
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.
— Imelda Marcos
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
— Imelda Marcos
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
— Imelda Marcos
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
— Imelda Marcos
I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
— Imelda Staunton
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
— Imelda Marcos
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
— Imelda Staunton
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
— Imelda Marcos
In spite of all the red flags and signs that Marc had more baggage than Imelda Marcos taking shoes on vacation, I continued to date him.
— Cierra Rantoul
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
— Imelda Staunton
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
— Imelda May
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
— Imelda Marcos
I've always liked new writing.
— Imelda Staunton
The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
— Imelda Marcos
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
— Imelda Marcos
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
— Imelda Staunton
I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
— Imelda Marcos
Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
— Imelda Staunton
There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.
— Imelda May
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
— Imelda Marcos
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
— Imelda Marcos
You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
— Imelda Staunton
Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
— Imelda May
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
— Imelda Staunton
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
— Imelda Marcos
I cannot have this Imelda Marcos woman beating me, whoever she is,' Suki shrugged by way of explanation.
— Sarah Alderson
I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.
— Imelda Marcos
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
— Imelda Staunton
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
— Imelda May
I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
— Imelda May
I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.
— Imelda Marcos
Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
— Imelda May
I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.
— Imelda Marcos
They need a role model. They need a star!
— Imelda Marcos
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail.
— Imelda Marcos
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
— Imelda Staunton
