I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThe musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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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 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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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn’t like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you’re] not part of the people in the bar.
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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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