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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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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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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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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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