My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.
BETH DITTOI worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
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High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
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I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
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I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
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