If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
BETTE MIDLERSold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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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?
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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hen you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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