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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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 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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I am a very complicated person.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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