Quotes from Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

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

I am a very complicated person.

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

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.

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

Artists need to express.

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

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

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

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

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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 very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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