If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
BETTE MIDLERI would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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Men’s brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
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We are all part of the ecosystem.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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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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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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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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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 the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They’d never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior.
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
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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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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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