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 MIDLERCulturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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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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