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
BEBE NEUWIRTHKirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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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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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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