If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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