When I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
BEBE NEUWIRTHIn 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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I know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn’t like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you’re] not part of the people in the bar.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
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I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Artists need to express.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn’t normally get.
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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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