No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the same move in a competition. Not one of those b-boys did anything to try to twist it and make it their own.
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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out.
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