I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
BETTE MIDLERI’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.
BETTE MIDLERLay 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 MIDLERI want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLERI would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
BETTE MIDLERI think the essence of humor has not changed. It’s all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.
BETTE MIDLERMy mother would only let us go to the musicals.
BETTE MIDLERWhere did I do well?” When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, “It was really good.”
BETTE MIDLERI 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 MIDLERPeople have an obligation to live up to their potential.
BETTE MIDLERWhen it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
BETTE MIDLERWhile I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking – to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
BETTE MIDLEROnly two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
BETTE MIDLEREnough about me. What do you think about me?
BETTE MIDLERI haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
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!
BETTE MIDLERMy idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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