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 PETERSNo One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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.
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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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.
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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.
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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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.
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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!
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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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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.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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