Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThat 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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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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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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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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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 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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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 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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