Bette Midler Quotes

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I've evolved as a human being, and I've taken more risks. I've let go of judgment. I don't know when the best stuff is coming - I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don't think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is for some people to do.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

Avoid your comfort zone - it's probably outdated anyway.

Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.