Bette Midler On Clams: “I have pretty good instincts. I go right to the line and even if I do things in bad taste, I do them in such a way that it’s okay. I’ve thought about just going out and performing straight. Sometimes I wonder about that. But everybody else does that and it’s so boring. Do you think I should come out and be boring like that? I don’t know. Maybe I should. Can you think of any performer who comes out and who knows how to do what I do as well as I do it? Who comes out and carries on like that and doesn’t give a s–? No. No, no, no. I do it because it comes easy to me. I enjoy it.” (Emporia Gazette, April 12, 1975)
