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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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 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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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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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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