I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
BETTE MIDLERLet 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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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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