Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
BETTE MIDLERIt is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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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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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
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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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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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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.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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