Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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.
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I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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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If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
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I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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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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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
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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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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.