Bette Midler Quotes

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

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

Bette Midler
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.

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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
I married a Kraut. Every night I get dressed up as Poland and he invades me.

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

Bette Midler
To this day, I don't know how my mother was able to raise us. She found her circumstances humiliating and didn't want anyone to see her living like that. But at the same tine, she tried desperately to get out. She wanted us to have a home and when my father brought home his paycheck, she immediately put it in the bank.

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I never had a friendship that lasted that long. But I had a very dear friend when I was young. 1 was in the tenth grade when we met, and she's the one who brought out whatever sense of humor I have. She was only 19 when she died. Since then I've had a good friend here and there, but nothing like that.

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

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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. It's not that there's a conspiracy. There's a rising mediocrity, and women are the victims of it.

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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time — if not of my block — being made to sound positively legume-like in printed interviews.

Bette Midler
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.

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

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My father never went to see my performances. I think he saw The Rose on television, and he saw me on the Johnny Carson Show., but he just wasn't interested. He didn't like popular culture. He thought it was garbage.

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Although, I'll tell you — you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down, and then it's over with. Ultimately, I have no regrets, because it has all turned out for the best. I like exactly where I am.

Bette Midler
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick. I made Down and Out in Beverly Hills eight or nine years ago, and since then I've read eight or nine scripts just like it. We need a broader menu.

Bette Midler
You know, a lot of people tell me I was their role model when they were in college, and that makes me feel fabulous.

Bette Midler
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.

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He was one of those poohpooher's — 'You'll never amount to a hill of beans.' Maybe it was reverse psychology, hoping against hope that I would amount to something, but it was pretty painful for a long time.

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I never know how much of what I say is true. If I did, I'd bore myself to death.

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

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I will never forget it! It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday. He rang me up and said, 'Soph, Soph! I just married me a twenty-year old girl. What do you think of that?' I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty I shall marry me a twenty-year-old boy. And let me tell you something, Ernie: twenty goes into eighty a helluva lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'

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I always believed that I was as good as the next person, although I'm also quite vulnerable, and there are times when I've lost faith in myself and have pretended things were okay when they weren't. I didn't want people to know that there was a hapless person in here.

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

Bette Midler
If you live in Beverly Hills they don't put blinkers in your car. They figure if you're that rich you don't have to tell people where you're going.

Bette Midler
Marriage involves big compromises all the time. International-level compromises. You're the U.S.A., he's the U.S.S.R., and you're talking nuclear warheads.

Bette Midler
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.

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There were some initial difficulties when the director first told me the disappointing news that if the film was to have any semblance of reality at all there would have to be moments when other people were on screen at the same time I was.

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Cherish Forever What Makes You Unique
Cause You're Really a Yawn When It Goes!

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

Bette Midler