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 MIDLERJust remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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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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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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