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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

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
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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Firsts Spontaneous Way
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
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’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
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 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 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
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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Artist Blessing Song
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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Creating Different Interesting
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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
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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Job Kissing Wife
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 want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
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
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
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
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
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
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
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
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
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song

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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