On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
BEBE NEUWIRTHCertainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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 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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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 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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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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