Bette Midler Quotes
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My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.
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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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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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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 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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I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
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I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
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I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.