This intense, quirky, multi-talented actor-singer-dancer, who after achieving Broadway success (including a... (Learn more)
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"I don't like to be called Lilith on the street; I'll actually ignore someone who does that, unless I feel they might hurt me. I don't like to be recognized. Especially if it's going to cause a scene or somebody is trying to win a bet. It can be completely dehumanizing, and I'm way too sensitive." - Neuwirth quoted in Time Out New York, Nov. 7, 1996
"I love Lilith, but I never wanted to be on television. I really love what I do [stage work], and I want to do a lot of it, and I noticed that the people who got the really good stuff to do in the shows were people with TV shows or movies, the celebrity types. I thought, maybe it will help me when I come back to Broadway if I go and do this." - Neuwirth quoted in The New York Times, Nov. 23, 1996
"I now have a place at a very cool table at which are seated Carol Channinng, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, and Julie Andrews." - Neuwirth on her place as a non-Hollywood actress, to Premiere magazine, August 2002
Neuwirth's portrait of the unsmiling, austere yet highly-strung therapist on "Cheers" seems to have its origins in one of her childhood idols: "When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Morticia Addams [of the 1960's mock-horror sitcom "The Addams Family"]. But I had bangs. I couldn't part my hair in the middle like she did. And Mrs. Munster - what a cheap imitation." - from People magazine, Aug. 26, 1991
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