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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

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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Mama Roles Rose
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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 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
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
“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 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 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
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
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
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
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
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
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
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
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner

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