Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Artists need to express.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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’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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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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I am a very complicated person.
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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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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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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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