black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

Bette Midler

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
BETTE MIDLER

Done Looks Mountain
I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
BETTE MIDLER

Clothes Heart People
There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
BETTE MIDLER

Media Sleep Way
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.
BETTE MIDLER

Born Entertaining Way
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
BETTE MIDLER

Down Market Money
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
BETTE MIDLER

Nominate Oscar Remember
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
BETTE MIDLER

Acceptance Inspirational Strong Women
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
BETTE MIDLER

Autumn Spring Summer
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
BETTE MIDLER

Art Cancer Light
You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
BETTE MIDLER

Bread Sliced Thinking
The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
BETTE MIDLER

Birth Giving Virgins
We’re all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
BETTE MIDLER

Divine Myself Nerves
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
BETTE MIDLER

Snow Spring Winter
Lay a foundation – get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
BETTE MIDLER

Enough Foundation Great Lay
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.
BETTE MIDLER

Books Costumes Love Photograph Until
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLER

Fun Giving People

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses’ plastic surgery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bette Midler Quotes