I’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.
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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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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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.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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