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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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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Bottom Chain Dancer
The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Character Heart Sexy
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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Job Kissing Wife
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
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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Ideas People Together
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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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Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
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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Class Connection Sick
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Broadway Hair Saw
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Misguide People Snap Judgment

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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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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