I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLER[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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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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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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