I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLERhen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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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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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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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 started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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 wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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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Total contentment is only for cows.
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