I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
BETTE MIDLERMost people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
BETTE MIDLER -
I never know how much of what I say is true.
BETTE MIDLER -
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 MIDLER -
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
BETTE MIDLER -
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLER -
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
BETTE MIDLER -
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
BETTE MIDLER -
That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
BETTE MIDLER -
It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
BETTE MIDLER -
[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
BETTE MIDLER -
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLER -
I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
BETTE MIDLER -
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLER -
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
BETTE MIDLER -
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
BETTE MIDLER -
In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
BETTE MIDLER -
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
BETTE MIDLER -
[On Denmark:] … that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
BETTE MIDLER -
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
BETTE MIDLER -
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
BETTE MIDLER -
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLER -
Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
BETTE MIDLER -
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
BETTE MIDLER -
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
BETTE MIDLER