I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
BETTE MIDLERI tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close – a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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The outside world doesn’t have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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I’m looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work – juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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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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I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.
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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.
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Culturally, it’s very hard to change people’s attitudes about public space.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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