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.
If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.
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.
I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.
The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
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.
I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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.
I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.
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?
It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
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.
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.
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.
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.
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.
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.
I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
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