Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
BERNADETTE PETERSThe challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
More Bernadette Peters Quotes
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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“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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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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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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’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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