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!
BETTE MIDLERWriting 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
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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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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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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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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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