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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.'

Bette Midler

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Bette Midler
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 1
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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I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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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.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. 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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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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