110+ Bette Midler Quotes (Funny, Versatile And Iconic)

Bette Midler is an American actress, singer, and comedian. She is known for her outrageous sense of humor and her powerful voice. She has starred in films such as The Rose, Beaches, and The First Wives Club.

Top 10 Bette Midler Quotes

1. My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
2. If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
3. If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
4. I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
5. After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
6. Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
7. Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
8. Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
9. 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.
10. Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

Bette Midler Image Quotes

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. — Bette Midler

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. — Bette Midler

Bette Midler Short Quotes

• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
• I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
• When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
• I never know how much of what I say is true.
• [On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
• I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
• I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
• Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Bette Midler Famous Quotes And Sayings

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. — Bette Midler

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. — Bette Midler

I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed! — Bette Midler

Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you. — Bette Midler

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap. — Bette Midler

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death? — Bette Midler

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. — Bette Midler

I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes. — Bette Midler

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed. — Bette Midler

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road. — Bette Midler

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose. — Bette Midler

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. — Bette Midler

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not. — Bette Midler

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

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. — Bette Midler

I'm working my way toward divinity. — Bette Midler

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

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

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

All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows. — Bette Midler

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. — Bette Midler

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces. — Bette Midler

From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man — Bette Midler

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week. — Bette Midler

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her. — Bette Midler

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured. — Bette Midler

All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them? — Bette Midler

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball. — Bette Midler

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. — 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. — Bette Midler

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own. — Bette Midler

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV. — Bette Midler

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra. — Bette Midler

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top. — Bette Midler

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do. — Bette Midler

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger. — Bette Midler

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. — Bette Midler

I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me." — Bette Midler

I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac. — Bette Midler

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

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted. — Bette Midler

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor. — Bette Midler

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

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie. — Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me. — Bette Midler

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft. — Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. — Bette Midler

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get. — Bette Midler

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down? — Bette Midler

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. — Bette Midler

Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city! — Bette Midler

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have. — Bette Midler

America is so caught up in this celebrity mania! — Bette Midler

From the age of 14 until I was 50, I just got on a treadmill and ran. I never stopped to assess what I was doing or to pat myself on the back. — Bette Midler

Enough about me. What do you think about me? — Bette Midler

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you — Bette Midler

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority. — Bette Midler

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at. — Bette Midler

As you age, feelings do diminish. — Bette Midler

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

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you — Bette Midler

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it. — Bette Midler

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

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll. — Bette Midler

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life. — Bette Midler

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns. — Bette Midler

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened. — Bette Midler

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

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 it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable? — Bette Midler

Total contentment is only for cows. — Bette Midler

We are all part of the ecosystem. — Bette Midler

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

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. — Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful. — Bette Midler

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

If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either. — Bette Midler

The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it. — Bette Midler

I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.' — Bette Midler

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. — Bette Midler

It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish. — Bette Midler

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that. — Bette Midler

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills. — Bette Midler

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space. — Bette Midler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My mother would only let us go to the musicals. — Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive. — Bette Midler

Life Lessons by Bette Midler

1. Bette Midler is a great example of resilience, having overcome many obstacles to become one of the most successful actresses of her time. She teaches us to never give up and to keep striving for our goals, no matter the challenges.
2. Bette Midler is also an advocate for social justice, having used her platform to speak out against inequality and injustice. She teaches us to use our voices to stand up for what is right and to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
3. Bette Midler is also a great example of self-love and self-care, having taken the time to nurture her own wellbeing and happiness. She teaches us to prioritize our own needs and to take care of ourselves first.