Bette Midler Quotes
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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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 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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If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.
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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 had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
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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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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.
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That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.
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The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
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Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.