“My specialty is to make people laugh really, really hard and -then turn around and make them cry. That’s what…
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“I’m pretty gutsy, but I’m intimidated by tremendous accomplishment… and by people who are very tall” – Bette Midler
“I’m pretty gutsy, but I’m intimidated by tremendous accomplishment… and by people who are very tall” – Bette Midler
“Live like every day is your last, work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody’s watching.” – Bette Midler
“Live like every day is your last, work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt,…
“I’m as confident as Cleopatra’s pussy.” — Bette Midler
“I’m as confident as Cleopatra’s pussy.” — Bette Midler
“I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.” — Bette Midler
“I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.” — Bette Midler
“There’s nothing in this world that is more worthy to own than compassion.”
“There’s nothing in this world that is more worthy to own than compassion.”
I’ve never known anyone to tell the truth about sex EVER!
“I’ve never known anyone to tell the truth about sex EVER! Have you? I have never, ever . . .I…
Music is the truest expression of myself,” she asserts. “Working in film, you’re basically at the mercy of someone else’s vision. With a record, I’m the final arbiter.
“Music is the truest expression of myself,” she asserts. “Working in film, you’re basically at the mercy of someone else’s…
[Our father] didn’t like us wearing make up and we had a curfew some ridiculous hour like ten o’clock, and if you weren’t in the house you usually got locked out.
“[Our father] didn’t like us wearing make up and we had a curfew some ridiculous hour like ten o’clock, and…
“Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlepper. I just do what I can do.” –Bette Midler
“Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlepper. I just do what I can do.” –Bette Midler
This cause means so much to me…that I am prepared, for the pledge of a mere five thousand dollars to drop my dress for Israel!
“This cause means so much to me…that I am prepared, for the pledge of a mere five thousand dollars to…
I am never very far away from my spirit., it’s just a quarter of an inch below the surface of my skin. It’s been very responsive to nature and to the lifeforms around me and I think that’s part of having a spiritual nature.
“I am never very far away from my spirit., it’s just a quarter of an inch below the surface of…
Despite the way things turned out [AIDS], I’m still proud of those days [when I got my start singing at the gay bathhouses in New York City].
“Despite the way things turned out [AIDS], I’m still proud of those days [when I got my start singing at…
I adore deceit and I don’t mind being misquoted.
“I adore deceit and I don’t mind being misquoted. I will not, however, allow myself to be made to sound…
Basically, what I was doing was a character that has always had a place in show business, and that’s the Broad.
“Basically, what I was doing was a character that has always had a place in show business, and that’s the…
I think the ill-tempered and venal quality of my true self is reflected.
“I think the ill-tempered and venal quality of my true self is reflected.” (BETTE MIDLER, half-joking about the semi-autobiographical character…
I opened the door for trashy singers with bad taste and big tits!
“I opened the door for trashy singers with bad taste and big tits!” (Kiss My Brass, 2004)
Maybe it sounds like sour grapes … but I turn the television on and, for the most part, so much of it is garbage. It’s incessant.
“Maybe it sounds like sour grapes … but I turn the television on and, for the most part, so much…
I did my best work there.(for the movie, “The Rose”)It was a time all my dreams were coming true
“I did my best work there.(for the movie, “The Rose”)It was a time all my dreams were coming true,” she…
I’ve become a good citizen, raised a beautiful daughter, helped a lot in New York City (working with the New York Restoration Project)
“I’ve become a good citizen, raised a beautiful daughter, helped a lot in New York City (working with the New…
“When my guts tell me to go, I go. I wanted to go last year (2002) but I wasn’t strong enough. . . .
“When my guts tell me to go, I go. I wanted to go last year (2002) but I wasn’t strong…
I consider myself a New Yorker.
I consider myself a New Yorker. I’ve had a lot of good times in New York, and I’ve had a…
I put up a wonderful front in A View from A Broad and I’m proud of it.
I put up a wonderful front in A View from A Broad and I’m proud of it. Writers should embroider…
If you let your character define your personality instead of keeping your true self separate, your character will get you. (Rolling Stone: December 9, 1982)
If you let your character define your personality instead of keeping your true self separate, your character will get you. (Rolling…
I am totally addicted to my work. I love it very much and I am always working. When I stop thinking it is like I am dead. My brain has to be in a constant state of arousal, that’s when I feel the best. (Veronica: March 29, 1980)
I am totally addicted to my work. I love it very much and I am always working. When I stop…
Oh, there was a time when I considered being a foreign diplomat. But I didn’t think they were appointing women to that sort of post then — and besides, I wasn’t very diplomatic! (Movie News: 1979)
Oh, there was a time when I considered being a foreign diplomat. But I didn’t think they were appointing women…
It’s dangerous to read reviews – the good ones or the bad ones.
It’s dangerous to read reviews – the good ones or the bad ones. I was crippled twice in my career…