I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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 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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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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