Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
BETTE MIDLERHoney, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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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.
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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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Most 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.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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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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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
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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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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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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.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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