When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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 am a very complicated person.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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