I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLERThe only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
BETTE MIDLERSome 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.
BETTE MIDLERMarriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLERThe first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
BETTE MIDLERI can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLERI’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLERit will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
BETTE MIDLERLife is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
BETTE MIDLERMost 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.
BETTE MIDLERI sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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