Bette Midler Quotes

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I've thought about going back to school.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, but if you don't push yourself, you're not growing, so where do you go?

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

It's important that you are not embarrassed when you try something new.

You can learn at any age and at any moment in your life.