Bette Midler Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.”

“My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.”

“I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.”

“When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.”

“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.”