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.
BETTE MIDLEROne of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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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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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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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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