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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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
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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
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’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
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
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
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
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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Dancing Love Separately Two
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years

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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