My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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.
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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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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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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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I 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”.
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