American - Actress | December 1, 1945 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
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When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
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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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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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Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
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