Bette Midler Quotes
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If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
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Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.
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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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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 was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.
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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 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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I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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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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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
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The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
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The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
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I 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!
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.