If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
BETTE MIDLERHoney, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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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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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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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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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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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I 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 read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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 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 want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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