Top 35 Quotes by Bette Midler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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