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 NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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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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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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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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 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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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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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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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 see myself as a diva at all.
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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’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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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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