I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
BETTE MIDLERI sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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 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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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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From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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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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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I believe that Judy Garland’s artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: ‘oh, she brought so much of her life to her music’, I don’t really believe that. I believe that she didn’t have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
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When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
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For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating – and then only by waiters.
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