The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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 been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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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 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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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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I know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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