If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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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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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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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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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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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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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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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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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