I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLERI 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.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
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If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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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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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
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