On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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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’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 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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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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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Artists need to express.
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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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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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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 think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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