More than anything I love being on stage and performing
BEBE NEUWIRTHShakespeare feels very natural to me.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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.
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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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Artists need to express.
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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 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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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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 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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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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I am a very complicated person.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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I know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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