I’m working my way toward divinity.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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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’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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My daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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