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
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
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I’ve seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
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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 was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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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I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
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More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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Artists need to express.
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I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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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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If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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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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