I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERIt is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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