black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

Bette Midler

That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
BETTE MIDLER

Nominate Oscar Remember
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLER

Emotional Friends Kind
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
BETTE MIDLER

Foundation Names Opera
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
BETTE MIDLER

Brain Play Random
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLER

All Delivered Want
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
BETTE MIDLER

Down Market Money
I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
BETTE MIDLER

Divine God Mad
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
BETTE MIDLER

Broken Heart Love Soul
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
BETTE MIDLER

Princess Royalty Spite
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
BETTE MIDLER

Bombarded Grow Up Ideas
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.
BETTE MIDLER

Thinking Two War
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER

Jakhammer Poetry Rap
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLER

Anything Clothes Feels Right
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLER

Daughter Grandchildren Young
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
BETTE MIDLER

Drinking People Smoking
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
BETTE MIDLER

Effect Good Read Sensitive

I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bette Midler Quotes