She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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 seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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 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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I am a very complicated person.
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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’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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