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
BEBE NEUWIRTHOne 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.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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