“Center Stage” quotes
(2000)
Title Center Stage
Year 2000
Director Nicholas Hytner
Genre Drama, Romance, Music
Year 2000
Director Nicholas Hytner
Genre Drama, Romance, Music
Plot – School of American Ballet, New York. Ambitious guys in search of glory compete one another to be the best dancer in the final show of the shool. Among the guys there are the rebel black girl, the talented heartless and the strong clumsy. They have to face even the two choreographers.
All actors – Amanda Schull, Christine Dunham, Stephen Stout, Maryann Plunkett, Laura Hicks, Barbara Caruso, Jeff Hayenga, Zoe Saldana, Victor Anthony, Karen Shallo, Carlo Alban, Giselle Daly
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“- Erik: My stage name is Erik O. Jones after Oprah. She is my idol.
- Eva: Eva Rodriquez, after no one.
- Erik: Oh, an individual. I like it.”“I do ballet because it has nothing to do with the people. Give me tiaras and boys in tights any day.”
“- Nancy: I know what regret feels like, and I don't want that for you.
- Maureen: That's what ballet would be. A life of wishing that I found something I loved, instead of something I just happened to do well. I'm not you, Mom. You didn't have the feet. I don't have the heart.”“Cooper, you're an amazing dancer, and you're a great choreographer, but as a boyfriend you kind of suck.”
“- Maureen: I've got priorities. I mean, you only get to be a dancer for ten years. Maybe fifteen if you don't get injured. So for the next decade at least.
- Jim: Hey, all I'm asking for is a date.”“I screwed up any chance I had back in September. But I started dancing long before this stupid workshop, and I'm gonna keep on dancing long after it. So tomorrow is one more day I get to dance.”
- Maureen: Erik got injured today. And do you know the first thing I thought when I saw him go down?
- Jim: What?
- Maureen Cummings: "I wish that was me". So that made me think, you know, 'cause that's not a normal reaction. How much of what you liked about me was because I was a ballet dancer, and how much because I was me?“Whatever you feel, just dance it.”
“A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for.”
“- Eva: What a prick.
- Jody: But he was really nice about it.
- Eva: Being nice when you say something pricky is even prickier.”“- Jim: Have you seen my girlfriend? Tall, thin, legs for days?
- Eva: Yeah I pitched her overboard.”
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