Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERIf you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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 feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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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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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 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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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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