Quotes by Irene Cara

Irene Cara

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Drug

Rumor

Stories

Cara is not my real name, and I’m not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.

Names

New York

Real

Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn’t have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.

Arms

Careers

Enemy

I am very intense. I can’t help it. That’s the way I am. You can’t be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can’t help but show on you.

Helping

Pressure

Way

I didn’t have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.

Graduates

School

I don’t like being under someone elses thumb. I’m very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement… trying to do what they want instead of being someone else’s Barbie doll.

Artist

Barbie Dolls

Supportive

I don’t mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I’d be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

Mean

Stars

Successful

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn’t like I hadn’t been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That’s my nature. I’ve always been a kind of mature kid.

Age

Kids

Kind

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

Alive

Song

Voice

I haven’t had a vacation in years. I’d really like to sneak off and just run around on a beach for a while.

Beach

Running

Vacation

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Alive

Arms

Artist

Barbie Dolls

Beach

Believe

Blessed

Brother

Cameras

Careers

Country

Cousin

Crazy

Dad

Deep Inside

Different

Done

Drug

Enemy

Entertaining

Fans

Fighting

Firsts

Graduates

Hair

Happens

Heart

Helping

Independent

Industry

Inspirational

Kids

Kind

Lawyer

Longing

Looks

Mean

Mind

Mirrors

Mistake

Mother

Music Industry

Musician

Names

New York

Order

Parent

Passion

People

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Quotes by Irene Cara

Irene Cara

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Cara is not my real name, and I’m not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.

Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn’t have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.

I am very intense. I can’t help it. That’s the way I am. You can’t be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can’t help but show on you.

I didn’t have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.

I don’t like being under someone elses thumb. I’m very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement… trying to do what they want instead of being someone else’s Barbie doll.

I don’t mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I’d be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn’t like I hadn’t been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That’s my nature. I’ve always been a kind of mature kid.

I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

I haven’t had a vacation in years. I’d really like to sneak off and just run around on a beach for a while.

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