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 PETERSSinging lessons are like body building for your larynx.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!
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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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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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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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.
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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