black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.

Bette Midler

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.
BETTE MIDLER

Beats Important Off Pissed
When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
BETTE MIDLER

Country Generous Kids Shortchange Understand
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
BETTE MIDLER

Rocks Roll Sold Soul
I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,
BETTE MIDLER

Please Singing Thinking
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLER

Ashes Mortals Shuffle
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER

Drinking Drunk Perspective
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLER

Bread Sliced Thinking
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
BETTE MIDLER

Art Listening Moving
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
BETTE MIDLER

Assessment Land Party
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
BETTE MIDLER

Autumn Spring Summer
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
BETTE MIDLER

Attitude People Space
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.
BETTE MIDLER

Independent Sibling Teacher
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.
BETTE MIDLER

Foundation Names Opera
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
BETTE MIDLER

Down Market Money
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLER

Planets Sanguine Way
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 don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bette Midler Quotes