I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
BERNADETTE PETERSI 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.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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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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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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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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 love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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