hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
BETTE MIDLERIf you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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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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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 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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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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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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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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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’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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I 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.
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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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