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 PETERSIt 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.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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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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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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