54 Quotes by Bernadette Peters

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.