Seinfeld Bette Midler Quotes

Total contentment is only for cows. ~ Bette Midler

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! ~ Bette Midler

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

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

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

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me? ~ 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

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces. ~ Bette Midler

GOD is watching us, from a Distance ... ~ 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

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

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier. ~ Bette Midler

They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew. ~ Anne Lamott

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 is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live. ~ Bette Midler

I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them. ~ Bette Midler

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself. ~ 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. ~ 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

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. ~ Bette Midler

What would you do without me?" he asked one night. We were tangled in the silky sheets of his gigantic bed. My heart was still pounding as I came down from the high of what we'd just done, and he wasn't helping matters by putting his lips so close to my ear.
"Live a happy… happy life," I murmured. "I might even… be an optimist… if you weren't around."
"Liar." He bit my earlobe playfully. "You'd be absolutely miserable. Admit it, Duffy. I'm the wind beneath your wings."
I bit my lip, but I still couldn't hold back the laughter-and just as I was finally catching my breath, too. "You just referenced Bette Midler… in bed. I'm starting to question your sexuality, Wesley."
Wesley looked at me with a defiant glint in his eye. "Oh, really?" He grinned before moving his mouth back to my ear and whispering, "We both know that my manhood has never been in question… I think you're just changing the subject because you know it's true. I'm the light of your life."
"You…" I struggled for words as Wesley pressed his mouth into the crook of my neck. The tip of his tongue moved down to my shoulder and made my brain get all fuzzy. How was I supposed to argue under these conditions? "You wish. I'm just using you, remember?"
His laughter was muffled against my skin. "That's amusing," he said, his lips still grazing my collarbone. "Because I'm pretty sure your ex is out of town by now." One of his hands slid between my knees. "Yet you're still here, aren't you?" His f ~ Kody Keplinger

The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan. ~ Joan Rivers

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

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

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier. ~ Bette Midler

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life. ~ Bette Midler

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best. ~ 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 want it all - and I would like it delivered. ~ Bette Midler

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that. ~ Robert Urich

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

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

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel. ~ Bette Midler

What I have in me ... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive ... it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself. ~ Bette Midler

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

I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love. ~ Lesley Nicol

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 out or no ass hanging out. ~ 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. ~ 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