More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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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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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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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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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