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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThat 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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Artists need to express.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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