I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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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 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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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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