You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERSIn 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!
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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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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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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.
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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.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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