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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

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
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’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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Life Performers Stage Tell
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
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
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
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 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
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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Dance Fun Years

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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