I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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’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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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 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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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