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Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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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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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?
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It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
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