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.
BETTE MIDLEREnough about me. What do you think about me?
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLER -
If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLER -
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLER -
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
BETTE MIDLER -
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
BETTE MIDLER -
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!
BETTE MIDLER -
A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
BETTE MIDLER -
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
BETTE MIDLER -
There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
BETTE MIDLER -
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
BETTE MIDLER -
I never know how much of what I say is true.
BETTE MIDLER -
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLER -
I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
BETTE MIDLER -
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.
BETTE MIDLER -
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
BETTE MIDLER -
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLER -
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
BETTE MIDLER -
There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
BETTE MIDLER -
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
BETTE MIDLER -
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
BETTE MIDLER