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.
BETTE MIDLERI 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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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 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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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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