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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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 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 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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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 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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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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 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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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