Bernadette Peters Quotes

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

I just love performing.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.