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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

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
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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Connections Day Minute One Rehearsal
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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Careers Challenges Gay Woman
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
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
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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Enchanted Evening Favorites Loved
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
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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Great Manager Thinking Way Years
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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Persons Sondheim Thinking
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
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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Baby Boys Enjoy Girl Much Young
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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
“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

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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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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