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 PETERSSinging lessons are like body building for your larynx.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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.
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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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.
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I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
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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.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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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.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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.
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