Bebe Neuwirth

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Shakespeare feels very natural to me.”

“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.”

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