Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
BETTE MIDLERI celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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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. That’s why I’m concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.
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Where did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
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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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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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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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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.
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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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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.
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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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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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