Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house.
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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You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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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She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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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 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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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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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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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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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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Artists need to express.
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I am a very complicated person.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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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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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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