When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
BEBE NEUWIRTHStage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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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 seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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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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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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 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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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’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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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 am a very complicated person.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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