Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
BERNADETTE PETERSI’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!
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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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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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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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 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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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 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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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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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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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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