Bernadette Peters Quotes

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

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.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

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.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

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.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

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.

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!

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.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.