I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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