I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
BETTE MIDLERMost people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump.
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
BETTE MIDLER -
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore – she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, “That’s who I should grow up to be.” It’s odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted;
BETTE MIDLER -
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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 want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLER -
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!
BETTE MIDLER -
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLER -
If someone were to say seriously, “I’m divine,” she’d have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying “I’m God.” But because I’m funny about it, they haven’t locked me up yet. And I don’t give myself airs, either.
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 -
As you age, feelings do diminish.
BETTE MIDLER -
Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
BETTE MIDLER -
I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
BETTE MIDLER -
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
BETTE MIDLER -
Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
BETTE MIDLER -
Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
BETTE MIDLER