Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
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More Bette Midler Quotes
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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 read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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