Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
BETTE MIDLERI 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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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.
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Unfortunately, every time there’s a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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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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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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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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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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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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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.
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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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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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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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