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.
BETTE MIDLERHere I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
More Bette Midler Quotes
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I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it’s full of rage and real human drama.
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Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love’s not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true …In this life I was loved by you.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that’s sick.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
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I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.
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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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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.
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