I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERSNo One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid 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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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 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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“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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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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