Bernadette Peters Quotes

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Inspirational, Positivity, Needs

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Sondheim, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Years, Missing, Dear God

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

  Bernadette Peters

  Singing, Body, Lessons

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Done, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Hair, Eras, Skinny

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Healing, Animal, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Notes, High Notes

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Running, Kids, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Bernadette Peters

  Careers, Roles, Great Music

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Meat, Red, Sun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  One Day, Connections, Rehearsal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Song, Oscars, Wonderful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Bernadette Peters

  Gay, Careers, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Girlfriend, Sleep, Boards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girl, Baby, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Mother, Glasses, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Years, Way

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Girl, Spring, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Moving, Challenges, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

  Bernadette Peters

  Marriage, Gay, Accepted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bernadette Peters

  Evening, Enchanted, I Loved You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Broadway, Firsts, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  Kids, Pasta, Sauce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bernadette Peters

  People, Hiv, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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