I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
BERNADETTE PETERSThe first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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“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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It Might As Well Be Spring… I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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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’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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 first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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 Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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