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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHCertainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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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 am a very complicated person.
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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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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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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