Bette Midler On Being Serious: “lt’s not hard for me to take things seriously. How I am depends on how I wake up. I think I’m schizo and I have vitamin deficiencies. Chemically, my body isn’t balanced properly so some days I’m very serious and sometimes I’m quite giddy. But I guess, on the whole, you could say I’m quite serious. I like to read, I like to study and I love to learn.” (The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1978)