On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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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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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 can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Artists need to express.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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