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BETTE MIDLERI 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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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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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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