Bebe Neuwirth

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

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.

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

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

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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