I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
BETTE MIDLERI hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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 [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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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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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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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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The 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;
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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