I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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I am a very complicated person.
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I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn’t like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you’re] not part of the people in the bar.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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’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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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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 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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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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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