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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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 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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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 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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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 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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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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