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
BEBE NEUWIRTHI don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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’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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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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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’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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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