If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
BETTE MIDLERThe outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
BETTE MIDLERThe Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
BETTE MIDLERWhen 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.
BETTE MIDLERI fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERSometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
BETTE MIDLEREven if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
BETTE MIDLERI’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
BETTE MIDLERThe [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.
BETTE MIDLERThank 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.
BETTE MIDLERI always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
BETTE MIDLERYou have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLERThat’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
BETTE MIDLERThere’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
BETTE MIDLERI tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
BETTE MIDLERWhen it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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