Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLERRap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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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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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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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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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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