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 More Quotes by Bette Midler More Quotes From Bette Midler When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it! Bette Midler assessment party land 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 country travel thinking 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 other-worlds book children There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own. Bette Midler time trying world I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in. Bette Midler rock-n-roll rocks cutting I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence? Bette Midler sick people thinking When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool. Bette Midler drinking smoking people Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business. Bette Midler voice song ideas 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 air giving people Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama. Bette Midler hard-work real drama 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 independent daughter real I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations. Bette Midler unrealistic-expectations expectations people 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 different stars years People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look. Bette Midler different age people Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city! Bette Midler wake-up soul cities Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around. Bette Midler trying mean people Hawaii doesn't smell like sex to me. It's the only place in the world that smells like that, but it's not sex, it's - freedom. Bette Midler world 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 upset That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won! Bette Midler oscars remember 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 cities want people
