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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
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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Ballet Dancer Training
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Character Heart Sexy
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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Applies Everything Relationship True
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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Girl House Way
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
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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Audience Character Shows
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
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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Bottom Chain Dancer
That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn’t normally get.
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Cheer People Special
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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Dancing Love Separately Two
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
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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Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
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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Artist Blessing Song
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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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Cold Eye Honest
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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Country Differences Roles Sexy
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
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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Butter Door Endowered Kick Photo
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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Care Hard Romantic Love Times

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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