The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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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 don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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 really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
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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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I am a very complicated person.
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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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