I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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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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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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 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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