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
BEBE NEUWIRTHThe musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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Artists need to express.
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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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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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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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