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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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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Causes Kind Legs
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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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Ideas People Together
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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Life Performers Stage Tell
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
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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Bottom Chain Dancer
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Being Big Hearted Somehow Vulgar Wondered
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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Dance Fun Years
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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Break Country Easter
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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Job Kissing Wife
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
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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Girl House Way
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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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Cold Eye Honest
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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Dancer Mean Stage
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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Audience Character Shows
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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Ballet Dancer Training
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing

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 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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