Bette Midler Quotes - Page 7

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

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

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.

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

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.

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

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.

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.

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?

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

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.

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.

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

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