It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
BETTE MIDLERSometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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 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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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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