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Bette Midler


American
December 1, 1945
Actress
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.


Bette Midler
Tags: Own After Mind
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.


Bette Midler
Tags: New Still Three
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.


Bette Midler
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?


Bette Midler
Tags: Music Me Think
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.
Bette Midler
My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.
Bette Midler
Tags: Me Just Would
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler
Tags: Me Who Because
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.
Bette Midler
Tags: Hope Love Way
As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
Bette Midler
Tags: You Who Really
I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
Bette Midler
Tags: You Me Want