If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLERJust remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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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 love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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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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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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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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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
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