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 MIDLERSometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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Previously, 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.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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