Bebe Neuwirth Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 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.”

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

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

“Artists need to express.”

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

“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.”