Top 82 Bebe's Quotes
#1. Because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply.
Paul Beatty
#2. Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
Bebe Neuwirth
#3. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#4. Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.
Bebe Neuwirth
#5. I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
BeBe Winans
#6. I know that's true for most micro-premature babies, but it's not true for Von.
Izzie Bebe
#7. 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
#8. The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
Bebe Neuwirth
#9. 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
#10. I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#11. You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
BeBe Winans
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
Bebe Neuwirth
#16. I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
Bebe Neuwirth
#17. I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
BeBe Winans
#19. When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#22. His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#23. Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends.
BeBe Winans
#25. I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so."
Bebe Neuwirth
#26. We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art
BeBe Zahara Benet
#27. Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
BeBe Winans
#28. I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans
#29. I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
Bebe Neuwirth
#30. If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.
Bebe
#32. Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.
BeBe Zahara Benet
#34. I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#35. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#37. The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#38. 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
#40. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#41. On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
Bebe Neuwirth
#42. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!
Louis Sachar
#43. Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
Bebe Neuwirth
#45. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#46. African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#47. She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.
BeBe Winans
#48. That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn't normally get.
Bebe Neuwirth
#49. The important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!
Bebe Moore Campbell
#51. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#52. People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#53. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#54. Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
Bebe Neuwirth
#55. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
Bebe Moore Campbell
#57. I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
Bebe Neuwirth
#58. I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.
JWoww
#59. You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
Bebe
#60. 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
#62. I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.
BeBe Winans
#63. I have a human tornado playing jump rope with my guts. Hard to sleep with Cirque de Bebe going on beind my belly button.
JB Salsbury
#64. I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.
Bebe Neuwirth
#65. My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
Bebe Neuwirth
#67. I have never been the type of person who has ever worried about what people think.
BeBe Winans
#68. Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
BeBe Winans
#69. The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
Bebe Neuwirth
#70. I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
BeBe Winans
#71. I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
Bebe Neuwirth
#72. People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
BeBe Winans
#73. I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth
#74. People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
Bebe Neuwirth
#75. 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
#79. Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
Bebe Neuwirth
#81. 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.
Bebe Neuwirth
#82. If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.
Bebe
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