My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHKirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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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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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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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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I am a very complicated person.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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