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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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 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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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