Bette Midler Quotes

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

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

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

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?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

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 want it all - and I would like it delivered.

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.

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

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

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

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

Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

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

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

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.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

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

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

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

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 never know how much of what I say is true.

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

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

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

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Total contentment is only for cows.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.