After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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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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[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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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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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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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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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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