I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLERI tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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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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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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 bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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