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.
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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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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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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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.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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