Quotes by Bebe Neuwirth

About Bebe Neuwirth:

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is an American actress, singer and dancer. On television, she is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife (later ex-wife), on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). The role won her two Emmy Awards. On stage, she is known for her Tony Award winning roles of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity (1986), and Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (1996). Other Broadway musical roles include Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (2010). Since 2014, she has starred as Nadine Tolliver in the CBS drama Madam Secretary.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

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

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.

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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

I am a very complicated person.

Bebe Neuwirth

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Bebe Neuwirth

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

Bebe Neuwirth

Author Bio

  • NameBebe Neuwirth
  • DescriptionActress
  • BornDecember 31, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Ballet Dancer; Dancer; Singer