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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHStage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I am a very complicated person.
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