I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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It’s a blessing as an artist to express myself – whether that be via dance, via song or via speech – in so many different ways.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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’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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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