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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff."

"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."

"Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited."
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"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."


"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."


"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer."


"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."


"I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be."


"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."


"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."


"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."
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