I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I am a very complicated person.
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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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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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 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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