Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
BETTE MIDLERI don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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