I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLERMusic is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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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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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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I’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.
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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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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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