The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
BEBE NEUWIRTHYou 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing.
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I am a very complicated person.
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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 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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Artists need to express.
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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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