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.
- Bernadette Peters Quote

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 Quote

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

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
- Bernadette Peters Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote (Broadway)

I used to fool around with it in my singing lessons. It was like being high when you hit those high notes!
- Bernadette Peters Quote (Broadway)

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

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
- Bernadette Peters Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Bernadette Peters Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
- Bernadette Peters Quote

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

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

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
- Bernadette Peters Quote