If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress,… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound… — 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
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
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do,… — 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
There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit,… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and… — 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
I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that. — 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
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
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 Image