The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
BERNADETTE PETERSI’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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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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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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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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