My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHOn the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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