I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLERYou 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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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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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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Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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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 never know how much of what I say is true.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
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