Words matter. These are the best Bebe Neuwirth Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Artists need to express.
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
I don’t see myself as a diva at all.
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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.
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.
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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.
I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
I am a very complicated person.
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.
When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.’
People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
