I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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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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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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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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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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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