I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
BEBE NEUWIRTHMore than anything I love being on stage and performing
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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.
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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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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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 missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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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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