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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

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 first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
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
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
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
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
She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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Being Big Hearted Somehow Vulgar Wondered
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
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
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

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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