If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERI would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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’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.
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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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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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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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 haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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