Bernadette Peters famous quotes

03-26-2025

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
-- Bernadette Peters

#Positivity #Needs #Need You
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Thinking #Sondheim #Persons
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Singing #Body #Lessons
You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Girl #Baby #Boys
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Rose #Roles #Mama
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Gay #Gay Marriage #Accepted
When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Hair #Eras #Skinny
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Healing #Animal #Important
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Giving Up #Home #Animal
It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Girl #Spring #Voice
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Listening #Wagner
Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Girlfriend #Sleep #Boards
I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Years #Missing #Aids
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Broadway #Vivid #Firsts
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Notes
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Song #Oscars #Wonderful
I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Thinking #Years #Way
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
-- Bernadette Peters

#One Day #Connections #Rehearsal
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Gay #Men #Knowing
When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Done #Want
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Broadway #Firsts #Bigs
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Moving #Challenges #Film
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
-- Bernadette Peters

#People #Helping #Illness
Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Running #Kids #People
I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Meat #Red #Sun
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
-- Bernadette Peters

#Gay #Careers #Challenges
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Kids #Pasta #Sauce
I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Evening #Enchanted #I Loved You
I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Mother #Play #Eyeglasses

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