Bebe Neuwirth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

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

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

Artists need to express.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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