The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
BEBE NEUWIRTHShe was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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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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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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 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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Artists need to express.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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