Latest Bette Midler Quotes from Interviews

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

  Bette Midler

  Thinking, People, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.

  Bette Midler

  Growing Up, Writing, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Bette Midler

  Mean, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Bette Midler

  Giving, Give Me A Chance, Chance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Hawaii doesn't smell like sex to me. It's the only place in the world that smells like that, but it's not sex, it's - freedom.

  Bette Midler

  World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Bette Midler

  Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Bette Midler

  Song, Ideas, Voice

• It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!

  Bette Midler

  Stars, Years, Different

• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  Bette Midler

  Song, People, Body

• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  Bette Midler

  Kids, School, College

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  Bette Midler

  Cities, People, Want

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

  Bette Midler

  Beautiful, People, World

• I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

  Bette Midler

  Way, Sanguine, Planets

• Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

  Bette Midler

  Fighting, Race, Years

• I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

  Bette Midler

  Heart, Clothes, People

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

  Bette Midler

  People, Looks, Look Up

• America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!

  Bette Midler

  America, Caught, Caught Up

• 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.

  Bette Midler

  Horse, Struggle, Trying

• I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

  Bette Midler

  Fun, People, Giving

• I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

  Bette Midler

  People, Expectations, Unrealistic Expectations

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

  Bette Midler

  Real, Drama, Hard Work

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

  Bette Midler

  Romance, Doe, Ephemeral

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

  Bette Midler

  Daughter, Real, Independent

• You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

  Bette Midler

  Daughter, Sophie, Littles

• Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

  Bette Midler

  People, Feels, Threatened