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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

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
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
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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Country Differences Roles Sexy
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
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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Ideas People Together
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Children Concert Saws
That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn’t normally get.
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Cheer People Special
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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Class Connection Sick
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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Causes Kind Legs
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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Care Hard Romantic Love Times
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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
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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Dance Fun Years
I don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.
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Cold Eye Grandeur Honest
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

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