Quotes from Bette Midler

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

I never know how much of what I say is true.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.