Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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Artists need to express.
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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 am a very complicated person.
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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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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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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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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 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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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 don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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