I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
BEBE NEUWIRTHI missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.
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Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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One of the things that’s great about doing a show over and over again… is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time… to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts
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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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