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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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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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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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