I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLERMy idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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 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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