Quotes by Helen Reddy

About Helen Reddy:

Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy is an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman". She is often referred to as the "Queen of '70s Pop."
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If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

Helen Reddy

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Helen Reddy

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

Helen Reddy

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

Helen Reddy

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

Helen Reddy

I am woman, hear me roar.

Helen Reddy

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Helen Reddy

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Helen Reddy

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

Helen Reddy

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Helen Reddy

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Helen Reddy

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

Helen Reddy

I like music to soothe me.

Helen Reddy

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Helen Reddy

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Helen Reddy

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Helen Reddy

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Helen Reddy

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

Helen Reddy

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

Helen Reddy

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Helen Reddy

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Helen Reddy

Author Bio

  • NameHelen Reddy
  • DescriptionAustralian actor
  • BornOctober 25, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Australia
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor; Singer; Composer