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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.
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There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.
Bette Midler
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The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
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Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.
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I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
Bette Midler
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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
Bette Midler -
I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
Bette Midler -
I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
Bette Midler -
Total contentment is only for cows.
Bette Midler
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette Midler -
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
Bette Midler -
If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
Bette Midler -
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette Midler
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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
Bette Midler -
That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
Bette Midler -
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.
Bette Midler