The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThe first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
BEBE NEUWIRTHIn 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 NEUWIRTHI missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t see myself as a diva at all.
BEBE NEUWIRTHYou 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
BEBE NEUWIRTHKirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHCertainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThat 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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