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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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