I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
BETTE MIDLERMy daughter very independent. But if she’s upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She’s great – a real tough cookie.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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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.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years.
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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.
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I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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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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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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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!
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