A biography for Shirley Ballashasn’t been written yet.
“Aside from dancing, the biggest and proudest moment of my whole entire life was when my son Mark was born.”
“When I was with my second husband, I'd always paint my nails and go to bed with my make-up on; he loved all that.”
“I will never take any work or shopping for granted.”
“How many years did I waste worrying about the way I look? I'm almost 60 and it has taken me all these years. Don't wait until you get to my age to realize that you are beautiful.”
“It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.”
“On Twitter one lady said, I've seen corpses that look better than Shirley.' I saw the picture she was talking about that Comic Relief had posted and I thought, Well yeah, she's got a point.'”
“I had breast implants done to save my marriage. It was the sorriest day of my life.”
“Without a stable mind, it's difficult for anything else to function.”
“I'm paranoid about mosquitoes.”
“I haven't got a green bone in my body. I have not got a jealous streak of any type at all.”
“You can't make somebody love you, no matter what you do to yourself. You can get implants, you can get all these procedures, thinking you will be more of a woman for that person. But it does not make a difference. If they don't love you, they won't no matter what you do to your appearance.”
“I just remember one girl really getting me on the field and beating the holy crap out of me. I never to this day know why. And then people used to be funny because we were on welfare. People used to make fun of you. But I used to get school dinners so I thought it was great, I got a hot meal every day.”
“When I married Sammy, my first husband, we were both just so young. But I've had a hugely successful career and I owe a lot of what I learnt in the industry to him, because he was already a top professional, and I was a nobody, really.”
“I've been in an industry of glitz since I was a little girl. I'm always going to love to wear eveningwear and eyelashes.”
“People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.”
“I was a fan of Meghan's before she met our gorgeous Prince Harry. I loved her in Suits,' I admired her work ethic and her charity work, and I think she is such a breath of fresh air.”
“I don't like the darkness and sleep with the light on.”
“There are always some people that like what you do and there's always going to be some who don't like what you do.”
“What I like to do when nobody's watching at home is, when I have my shower in the morning, I listen to music - my favorite group is Alexander Jean - they wrote a beautiful rumba called Paper Planes.' So I do my little rumba moves while I'm washing my hair.”
“I'm not a judgmental person because I have been judged all my life.”