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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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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Ideas People Together
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
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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Ballet Dancer Training
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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Job Kissing Wife
I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
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Life Performers Stage Tell
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
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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Causes Kind Legs
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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Cheer People Special
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
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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Audience Character Shows
Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
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Girl House Way

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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