Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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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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Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. 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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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 made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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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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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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Artists need to express.
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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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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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I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. 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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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.
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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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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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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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I am a very complicated person.
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I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
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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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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, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections
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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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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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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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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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. More than anything I love being on stage and performing
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