I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLERI hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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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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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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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!
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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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.
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Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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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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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.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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If only I’d known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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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.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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