Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn’t even doing the singing. I’m a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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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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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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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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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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