Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
BETTE MIDLERI’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I 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.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Thank 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.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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Lay 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.
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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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