When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
BERNADETTE PETERSYou’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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 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 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 I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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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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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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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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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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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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