People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI am a very complicated person.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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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 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 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’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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I am a very complicated person.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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 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 musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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