black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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 Knowing Men Money Race
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

Baby Boys Enjoy Girl Much Young
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS

Inspirational Needs Positivity
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Bigs Broadway Firsts
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!
BERNADETTE PETERS

Careers Great Music Roles
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!
BERNADETTE PETERS

Careers Challenges Gay Woman
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

Connections Day Minute One Rehearsal
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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

Animal Giving Home Important Up
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Drink Meat Much Red Stay Sun
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Animal Healing Important
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

Oscars Song Wonderful
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

Enchanted Evening Favorites Loved
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
BERNADETTE PETERS

High Notes Notes

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernadette Peters Quotes