I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLERI’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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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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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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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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It 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!
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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