Bebe Neuwirth quotes

Bebe Neuwirth is an American actress, singer, and dancer recognized for her versatile performances on stage and screen. Her most famous roles include Dr. Lilith Sternin in the television series "Cheers" and "Frasier," as well as numerous acclaimed Broadway performances. She is the recipient of multiple Tony and Emmy Awards for her outstanding work. Here are 29 of her quotes:

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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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

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

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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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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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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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Artists need to express.

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

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I am a very complicated person.

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

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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.

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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

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

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

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

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