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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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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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 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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Artists need to express.
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I am a very complicated person.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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 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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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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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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