Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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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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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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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 try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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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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[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.