Quotes from Bette Midler

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

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.

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

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world. That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.