The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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I really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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