We are all part of the ecosystem.
BETTE MIDLER[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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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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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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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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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!
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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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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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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.
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