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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

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
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
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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Out People Thinking Work
I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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 can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
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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Applies Everything Relationship True
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
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
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
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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Break Country Easter
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
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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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Cold Eye Honest
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
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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Misguide People Snap Judgment
More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Anything Being Love More Performing Stage
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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Butter Door Endowered Kick Photo
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
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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Bottom Chain Dancer

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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