Bette Midler

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

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

“I'm working my way toward divinity.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.”

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

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

“Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!”

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

“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 got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”