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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: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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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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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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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 always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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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've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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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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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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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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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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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