Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLERI always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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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I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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I’m mad about God! That’s why I’m divine.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.
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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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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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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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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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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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