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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.

Bernadette Peters

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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Oscars Song Wonderful
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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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Animal Giving Home Important Up
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
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
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
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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Girl Lesson Pick Spring Voice
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
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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Boobs Eras Hair Skinny Straight
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
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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Gay Knowing Men Money Race
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose
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

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