Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
BETTE MIDLERI feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
More 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 love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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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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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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