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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Artists need to express.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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