Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
BEBE NEUWIRTHShakespeare feels very natural to me.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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You 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.
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I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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