I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Artists need to express.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that’s what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, “Hey asshole, I told you so”.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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