The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERI want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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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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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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