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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.

Bebe Neuwirth

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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’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
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
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
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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Creating Different Interesting Role Thing
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
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
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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
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
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
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
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years

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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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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