"Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started."
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"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage."
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"I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset."
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"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
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"I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films."
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"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."
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"There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process."
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"My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw."
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"Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
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"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
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"I think my greatest insecurity would just be standing in the middle of the room and having everyone watching me thinking that's what I want. If I am interesting to you because of who I am, then that's incredible. But if I'm interesting to you only because of what I am, then let's not bother, you know?"
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"There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance."
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"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
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"That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are."
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"No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you."
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"If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."
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"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."
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"I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"
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