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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!

Bernadette Peters

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
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
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
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
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
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
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
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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
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
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
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
“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

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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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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