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All Quotes by author - Bebe Neuwirth
" Artists need to express. "
Need
Artists
Express
" Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different. "
Interesting
Show
Situation
" I am a very complicated person. "
Am
I Am
Complicated
" I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training. "
Just
Mean
Training
" 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. "
Stage
Love
Dancing
" 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. "
Electricity
Connections
Feel
" I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage. "
Fly
Missed
Break
" I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am. "
My Life
I Am
Life
" 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. "
Difference
Sexy
New York
" 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. "
Speech
Blessing
Dance
" 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. "
Stage
Just Because
I Can
" I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career. "
Been
Career
Fortunate
" I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. "
Ballet
Training
I Am
" I've seen some very beautiful drag queens. "
Queens
Beautiful
Drag
" I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw. "
Concerts
Very
Saw
" My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.' "
Love
Audition
Been
" 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. "
Doing
You
Time
" On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence. "
Rare
Silence
Occasions
" 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. "
Success
See
Part
" 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. "
Yourself
People
Think
" People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided. "
Misguided
Make
About
" Shakespeare feels very natural to me. "
Me
Shakespeare
Very
" Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two? "
Why
Two
Stage
" 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. "
Messed Up
Legs
Kind
" When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable. "
Chain
Food
Who
" 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. "
Risk
Fun
Skiing
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