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.
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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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 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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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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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 are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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 don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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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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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 can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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I am a very complicated person.
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