I 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.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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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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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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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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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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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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