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.
BERNADETTE PETERSWorking on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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 feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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“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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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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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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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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 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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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