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.
BETTE MIDLERIf I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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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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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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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 you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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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