Bebe Neuwirth Quotes

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'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

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

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

I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

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.

Artists need to express.

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

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.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

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

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

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.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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

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

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

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

I am a very complicated person.

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".

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.