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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThe first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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In 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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Artists need to express.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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