Bette Midler Quotes

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

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.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

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

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!

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.

My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

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

We are all part of the ecosystem.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

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.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

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.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

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 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.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

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.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

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

After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

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

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.