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 NEUWIRTHAnything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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