“I made up my mind a long time ago–if you’re gonna read the good you gotta read the bad, too. And since I had no tolerance at all for even one bad word, even a suggestion, it became impossible for me to read not only reviews, but also any interview that I had ever given

Bette Midler: “I made up my mind a long time ago”“if you’re gonna read the good you gotta read the bad, too. And since I had no tolerance at all for even one bad word, even a suggestion, it became impossible for me to read not only reviews, but also any interview that I had ever given. I don’t read any of it. And that’s the reason why I don’t believe my own press. I used to, in the old days, get terribly despondent and in fact I couldn’t even work. One guy put me out of business for a year.” (2014)