Bette Midler Quotes
I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
-
I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
-
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
-
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
-
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
-
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
-
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
-
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
-
I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
-
I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
-
I look formidable.
-
I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
-
In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film.
-
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.
-
The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
-
When I was young, I looked up to Martina Hingis.
-
I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
