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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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
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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Ideas People Together
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
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
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’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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Dancer Mean Stage
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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Job Kissing Wife
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
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
More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Anything Being Love More Performing Stage
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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Causes Kind Legs
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

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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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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