Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
BEBE NEUWIRTHKirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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 you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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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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There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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