I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERWhile I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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 fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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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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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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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!
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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 firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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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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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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