I am a very complicated person.
BEBE NEUWIRTHOne 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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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’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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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Artists need to express.
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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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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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