I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLERFor 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.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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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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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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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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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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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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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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