The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERThe worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLERI’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
BETTE MIDLERI sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
BETTE MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERI was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
BETTE MIDLERLife is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
BETTE MIDLERPreviously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
BETTE MIDLERYou can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
BETTE MIDLERIf somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
BETTE MIDLERI’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
BETTE MIDLERThere’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLERI never know how much of what I say is true.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
BETTE MIDLERI try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLERRap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLERMake 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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