I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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I don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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