Bernadette Peters Quotes

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.

'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.

I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.

My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

I didn't know I'd ever write a Broadway musical.

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.