I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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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 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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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I am a very complicated person.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Artists need to express.
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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 feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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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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I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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