black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Bette Midler

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
BETTE MIDLER

Careers People Want
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLER

Funny Hilarious Love
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 loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLER

Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
BETTE MIDLER

Childhood Dream Thinking
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
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
BETTE MIDLER

Book Saws World
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
BETTE MIDLER

Opportunity Phones Waiting
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
BETTE MIDLER

Bigger Life People
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 MIDLER

Block Positively Sound
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLER

Drama Hard Work Real
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
BETTE MIDLER

Birth Giving Virgins
Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
BETTE MIDLER

Balls People
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
BETTE MIDLER

Best Hard People Work
It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
BETTE MIDLER

Different Stars Years
I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
BETTE MIDLER

Holiday Religious Self

I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bette Midler Quotes