I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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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’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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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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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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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