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When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

Bernadette Peters

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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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Drink Meat Much Red Stay Sun
“Into the Woods” was… a lot of running around in the woods! I can’t wait to see the show again. People didn’t realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
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Kids Made Mark People Running Young
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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Oscars Song Wonderful
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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Dear God Miss Missing Years
I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!
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Careers Great Music Roles
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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Boobs Eras Hair Skinny Straight
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Inspirational Needs Positivity
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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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Gay Knowing Men Money Race
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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Broadway Firsts Vivid
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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Challenge Film Moving

When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

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