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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

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
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
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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Connections Day Minute One Rehearsal
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
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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Enchanted Evening Favorites Loved
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
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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Great Manager Thinking Way Years
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
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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
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
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
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
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
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
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
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
“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
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
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
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
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose
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
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

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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