I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence? — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am,… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
before one actually visits them, everyone tends to think of their favorite countries as one grand Disneyland filled with national monuments and… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard! — 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… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life… — 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
![“The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we…” quote by Bette Midler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8cb/bette-midler-1976_actresses_the-first-time-i-saw-a-picture-of-fabled_408548.jpg)
