Bebe Neuwirth Quotes

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Bebe Neuwirth

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 31, 1958

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.

Bebe Neuwirth

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

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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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Artists need to express.

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I don't see myself as a diva at all.

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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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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

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

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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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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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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

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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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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

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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.

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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'

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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 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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