Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
BEBE NEUWIRTHAnything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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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 am a very complicated person.
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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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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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 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 feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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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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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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