American - Actress | December 1, 1945 -
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
Bette Midler
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I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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I'm working my way toward divinity.
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I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
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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.'
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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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.
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
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I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
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