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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThe musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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 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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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’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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.
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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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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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One of the things that’s great about doing a show over and over again… is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time… to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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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 can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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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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 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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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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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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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