Bette Midler Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I 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.
-
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
-
I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
-
I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.
-
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. 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.
-
I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
-
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.
-
Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
-
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
-
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
-
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
-
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
-
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
-
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
-
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.
-
We are all part of the ecosystem.
-
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
-
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
-
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
-
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
-
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
-
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
-
What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
-
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.