I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
BETTE MIDLERI’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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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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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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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 love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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