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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More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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’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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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 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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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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