People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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”.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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
BEBE NEUWIRTHCreating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHKirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHIf 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
BEBE NEUWIRTHAnything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
BEBE NEUWIRTHShakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTHOne 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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPart 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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