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.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
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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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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’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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