Bette Midler Quotes

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

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!

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

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.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and historical treasures conveniently laid out for easy viewing, when what they really are filled with, of course, is people going to work, laundromats and places to buy rat poison.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

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.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

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.

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.

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

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.

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.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

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.

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

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.

It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.