Bette Midler Quotes
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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While 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.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'
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I don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.
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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
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That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!