Bebe Neuwirth Quotes

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

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

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."

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

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

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

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.

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

I am a very complicated person.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Artists need to express.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

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

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

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.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

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.

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

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.