I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLERWhen 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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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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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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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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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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