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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
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.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Audience Character Shows
I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Life Performers Stage Tell
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Beautiful Drag Queen
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Animal Different Stage Two
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.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Care Hard Romantic Love Times
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 NEUWIRTH

Firsts Spontaneous Way
The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Character Heart Sexy
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Dance Thirty Way Years
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Gym Rare Occasion Silence
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Auditions Piano Song
I am a very complicated person.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Complicated Often Persons Very
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Anything Good Possibly Trying
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.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Dance Fun Years
I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Break Country Easter
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.
BEBE NEUWIRTH

Cheer People Special

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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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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