I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLERWhile I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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