My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen 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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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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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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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’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 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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I am a very complicated person.
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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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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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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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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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