If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLERMusic 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.
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
BETTE MIDLER -
My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
BETTE MIDLER -
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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 been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLER -
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER -
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLER -
Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
BETTE MIDLER -
I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
BETTE MIDLER -
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
BETTE MIDLER -
Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
BETTE MIDLER -
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
BETTE MIDLER -
I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
BETTE MIDLER