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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Bebe Neuwirth

The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Character Heart Sexy
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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Ballet Dancer Training
I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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Applies Everything Relationship True
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Creating Different Interesting Role Thing
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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Cold Eye Honest
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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Class Connection Sick
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
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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Break Country Easter
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
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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Butter Door Endowered Kick Photo
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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Job Kissing Wife
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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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Dancing Love Separately Two
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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Girl House Way
When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Bottom Chain Dancer
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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Causes Kind Legs
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Being Big Hearted Somehow Vulgar Wondered
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
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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Life Performers Stage Tell
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate

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