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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.

Bebe Neuwirth

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
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 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’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
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
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
The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Character Heart Sexy
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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Care Hard Romantic Love Times
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 don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
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
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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Anything Good Possibly Trying
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
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
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 have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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Doors Kicking Knives
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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
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
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
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
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

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.

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