71 Quotes by Bebe Neuwirth

The Cheers' character Lilith is not based on the Jewish myth,

The laughs are earned by the really well fleshed out characters.

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.

The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

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

I know when I’m bad, I know when I’m good, and I know when I’m everything in between. I don’t have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I’ve got a pretty cold honest eye.

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.

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.

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.