I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
BEBE NEUWIRTHCreating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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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’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 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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I am a very complicated person.
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