We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
BERNADETTE PETERSYou’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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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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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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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He’s as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he’s had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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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 know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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