Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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 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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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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’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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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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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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