When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
BETTE MIDLEREnough about me. What do you think about me?
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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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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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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.
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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?
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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