Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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
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Artists need to express.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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