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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Bebe Neuwirth

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
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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Dance Fun Years
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Author Country Feels Natural Person
I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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Act Dancer Sing
I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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Beautiful Drag Queen
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
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 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
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
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All Diva Myself See
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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Ideas People Together
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
My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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Auditions Piano Song
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
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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Ballet Dancer Training
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
Artists need to express.
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Artist Express Needs
I am a very complicated person.
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Complicated Often Persons Very
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Careers Collaborators Fortunate
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 know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between.
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Cold Eye Honest
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
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

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