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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Bebe Neuwirth

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
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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
More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Anything Being Love More Performing Stage
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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Care Hard Romantic Love Times
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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Cheer People Special
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
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
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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Class Connection Sick
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
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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Country Differences Roles Sexy
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Creating Different Interesting Role Thing
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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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Artist Blessing Song
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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Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
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’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 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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Dancing Love Separately Two
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
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’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 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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two

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