Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
BEBE NEUWIRTHCertainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
BEBE NEUWIRTHOn the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPart 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t see myself as a diva at all.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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”.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
BEBE NEUWIRTHIn 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
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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