Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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 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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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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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’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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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