Bette Midler famous quotes

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

#Would Be #Easier #Assets

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

#Inspirational #Acceptance #Unique

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
-- Bette Midler

#Love #Funny #Hilarious

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

#Fashion #Believe #World

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

#Ideas #Cleaning #Superwoman

Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.
-- Bette Midler

#Love #Life #Romantic

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
-- Bette Midler

#Hard Work #People

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
-- Bette Midler

#Funny Birthday #Mind #Age

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

#Success #Business #Trying

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
-- Bette Midler

#Mind #Bears #Grudge

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?
-- Bette Midler

#Wise #Nice #Cat

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Self Esteem #Hard Work #People

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
-- Bette Midler

#Home #Heaven #World

I'm working my way toward divinity.
-- Bette Midler

#Divinity #Way #My Way

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

#Shoes #Lady Macbeth #Pairs

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

#Inspiration #Memorable #Tonight

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
-- Bette Midler

#Religious #Holiday #Self

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

#Inspirational #New York #Humorous

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
-- Bette Midler

#Want

I never know how much of what I say is true.
-- Bette Midler

#Funny #Truth #Cynicism

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Scare #Groups #Want

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
-- Bette Midler

#Rap

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Country #Horse #Book

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

#Cancer #Light #Hopeful

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Children #Book #Other Worlds

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Mother #Growing Up #People

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

#Ocean #America #Wish

My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.
-- Bette Midler

#Waiting #Firsts #Kind

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
-- Bette Midler

#People #Obligation

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
-- Bette Midler

#Self Esteem #Self #Esteem

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

#Laughing #Slave #Make Me Laugh

I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
-- Bette Midler

#Believe #Moving #Mean

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

#Relationship #Men #Plenty

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

#Smell #Infidelity #Pace

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Philosophy #Taken #Giving

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

#Love #Broken Heart #Soul

I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
-- Bette Midler

#Sex #Couple #Bob

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

#Drinking #Drunk #Perspective

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Way #Born #Entertaining

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

#Lows #Standards

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

#Humorous #Memorable #Night

I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
-- Bette Midler

#House #Watches #News

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

#Love You #Light

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

#Time #Trying #World

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

#Dance #Dream #Heart

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

#Breakup #Tvs #Married

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
-- Bette Midler

#Money

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Spring #Winter #Snow

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger ***** than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
-- Bette Midler

#People #Life Is #Bigger

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

#Long #Watches #Made

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Song #Beach #Love You

From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man
-- Bette Midler

#Distance #Ocean #Men

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

#Memorable #Tacky #Popularity

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
-- Bette Midler

#War #Thinking #Two

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
-- Bette Midler

#Movie #Ecosystems #Sick

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Movie #Running #Men

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

#Two #People #Groups

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Men #Views #Perspective

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 patiently for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place- I've always done that.
-- Bette Midler

#Opportunity #Phones #Waiting

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Block #Sound #Publicity

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

#Princess #Royalty #Spite

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

#Tacky #Ease #Lasts

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Country #Travel #Thinking

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

#Friends #Emotional #Kind

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

#Country #Europe #Cottages

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Depression #Speak #Eating

I sold my soul to rock and roll.
-- Bette Midler

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Soul

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Names #Foundation #Opera

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

#Towns #Kind #Life After Death

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

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

#Giving #Birth #Virgins

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
-- Bette Midler

#Soul #Devil #Chains

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.
-- Bette Midler

#Believe #Gay #Rumor

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

#Clothes #Feels Right #Feels

Total contentment is only for cows.
-- Bette Midler

#Contentment #Cows

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
-- Bette Midler

#Singing #Orchestra #Helen

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
-- Bette Midler

#Running #Flags #Passionate