There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERI don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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