I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERSYou’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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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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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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