I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLERThe worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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 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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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