People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Some say love, is a river, that drowns the tender reed Some say love, is a razor, that leaves your soul to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw… — Bette Midler Copy Share
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I… — Bette Midler Copy Share
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… — Bette Midler Copy Share
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then… — Bette Midler Copy Share
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It… — Bette Midler Copy Share
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. — Bette Midler Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space. — Bette Midler Copy Share
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take… — Bette Midler Copy Share
Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out. — Bette Midler Copy Share
I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority. — Bette Midler Copy Share