The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
BETTE MIDLERWhen 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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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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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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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do 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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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