The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
BERNADETTE PETERSAnimals 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.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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 feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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 pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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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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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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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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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