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BETTE MIDLERI think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Most people don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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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.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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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!
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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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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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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