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.
BERNADETTE PETERSGeorge 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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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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 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 love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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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