I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLERIt 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!
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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