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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

Bernadette Peters

When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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
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
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 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 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 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
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

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