Bette Midler Quotes
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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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.
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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
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I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.
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The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
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It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
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I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.