The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
BERNADETTE PETERSI know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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 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’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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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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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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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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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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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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 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’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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