Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
BERNADETTE PETERSIn 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!
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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’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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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 know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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“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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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