Bette Midler Quotes

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

Hollywood has always been crazy. It's controlled anarchy. But how can you loathe something that has given you so much?

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

My mind is always in Hollywood.

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

No one is bigger than cinema.

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

There are many good-looking actors.

I never watched any award show.

After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.