You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERSIn 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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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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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