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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
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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."

"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."

"In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!"

"Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about."

"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."

"The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on."

"Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board."

"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."

"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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