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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.

Bebe Neuwirth

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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Girl House Way
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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Break Country Easter
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
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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Country Differences Roles Sexy
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
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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Dancing Love Separately Two
The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Character Heart Sexy
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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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Ideas People Together
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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Bottom Chain Dancer
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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Artist Blessing Song
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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Cheer People Special
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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Causes Kind Legs
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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Audience Character Shows
If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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Class Connection Sick

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