I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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 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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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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