I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLERIt’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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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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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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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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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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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 don’t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
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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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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
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When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can’t understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
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