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.
BETTE MIDLERA lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
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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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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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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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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 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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