You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERSI feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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’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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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 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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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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’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’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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