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 NEUWIRTHPeople are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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’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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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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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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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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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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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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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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