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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

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
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
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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
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
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
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
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 feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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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Dear God Miss Missing Years
“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
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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Drink Meat Much Red Stay Sun
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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Broadway Firsts Vivid

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