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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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Artists need to express.
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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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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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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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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 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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