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
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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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 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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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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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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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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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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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