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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Artists need to express.
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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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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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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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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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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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When 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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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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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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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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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