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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.

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
When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Bottom Chain Dancer
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Gym Rare Occasion Silence
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
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
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
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
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Dancer Difficult Training
I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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Dance Thirty Way Years
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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Broadway Hair Saw
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
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Animal Different Stage Two
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
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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Audience Character Shows

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