People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPart 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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 am a very complicated person.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Artists need to express.
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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.
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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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