Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

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.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

I am a very complicated person.

Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.