Bebe Quotes

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.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

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.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

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

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

You live your life between your ears.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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

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

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

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

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 been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

I am a very complicated person.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Artists need to express.

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.

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

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

My color is my joy and not my burden...