I’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 MIDLERLay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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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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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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hen 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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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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