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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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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Country Differences Roles Sexy
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
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
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
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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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Dancer Mean Stage
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
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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Applies Everything Relationship True
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
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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Artist Blessing Song
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
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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Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
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
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See

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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