When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
BETTE MIDLERIt is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
More Bette Midler Quotes
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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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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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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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I 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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I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
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