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.
BETTE MIDLERThe inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
BETTE MIDLER -
A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
BETTE MIDLER -
The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
BETTE MIDLER -
I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
BETTE MIDLER -
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
BETTE MIDLER -
If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
BETTE MIDLER -
I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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 -
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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 -
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
BETTE MIDLER -
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
BETTE MIDLER -
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.
BETTE MIDLER -
People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLER