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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHIf 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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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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