I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
BETTE MIDLERThe [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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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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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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