Bette Midler Quotes

My dream has always been to be in entertainment.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

I would love to be an actress!

My dream job is definitely to be an actor/director/writer, all three.

I love performing. I'll never get that out of me.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted to know how that felt. I started to get into it around the same time I got into acting, but it turned into a side project because my movies were taking up most of my time.

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.