“Center Stage” quotes

“- 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.”
Shakiem Evans - Erik
Zoe Saldana - Eva

“I do ballet because it has nothing to do with the people. Give me tiaras and boys in tights any day.”
Shakiem Evans - Erik

“- Maureen: Look, you're a smart girl, Jody. If you turn in your application now, you can still get into a good college.
- Jody: But I don't want to go to college. I want to dance.
- Maureen: Yeah? Well so do a lot of people.”
Susan May Pratt - Maureen
Amanda Schull - Jody

“- 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.”
Debra Monk - Nancy
Susan May Pratt - Maureen

“Cooper, you're an amazing dancer, and you're a great choreographer, but as a boyfriend you kind of suck.”
Amanda Schull - Jody

“- 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.”
Susan May Pratt - Maureen
Eion Bailey - Jim

“- Mrs. Sawyer: It was great, honey. And just just wonderful.
- Jody: You wanna know something stupid? I'd actually started to believe I didn't need to hear that anymore.”
Stephen Stout - Mr. Sawyer
Amanda Schull - Jody

“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.”
Zoe Saldana - Eva

- 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?
Susan May Pratt - Maureen
Eion Bailey - Jim

“Whatever you feel, just dance it.”
Sascha Radetsky - Charlie

“A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for.”
Zoe Saldana - Eva

“- Sergei: I am your slave.
- Eva: I'd believe it more if you weren't staring at your fucking reflection when you said it.
- Instructor: If someone wants to hear profanity, Miss Rodriguez, they can take a subway. They don't need to spend sixty dollars on a ballet ticket.”
Ilia Kulik - Sergei
Zoe Saldana - Eva

“- Eva: What a prick.
- Jody: But he was really nice about it.
- Eva: Being nice when you say something pricky is even prickier.”
Zoe Saldana - Eva
Amanda Schull - Jody

“- Jim: Have you seen my girlfriend? Tall, thin, legs for days?
- Eva: Yeah I pitched her overboard.”
Eion Bailey - Jim
Zoe Saldana - Eva