I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
BETTE MIDLERI feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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 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,
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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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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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