Bette Midler

Group conformity scares the pants off me because its so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesnt want to or cant join the Big Parade.

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.

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

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

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

Cats always seem so very wise when staring with their half closed eyes. Can they be thinking Ill be nice and maybe she will feed me twice

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

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

After 30 a body has a mind of its own.

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

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

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

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

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

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

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

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

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.

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

If youre passionate about something then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

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.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

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

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

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

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

I'm working my way toward divinity.

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

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

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.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world.