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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.' BRENTON THWAITES
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing less... TWYLA THARP We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of ...
EMILE HIRSCH
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes And...
DREE HEMINGWAY When I was little, I took ballroom dancing, but didn't do any kind of dancing again until I started ...
NANCY GORDON
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to g... SIMON SINEK Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
JOEY MCINTYRE
I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I... SIGOURNEY WEAVER
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h... DAVID MCCULLOUGH
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of loc... KERRY WASHINGTON I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes t...
JENNIFER GREY
There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets ... JOEL EDGERTON I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and si...
GERHARD RICHTER My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated...
ANTON DU BEKE When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a ...
BRUNO TONIOLI My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got t...
RAY PARK
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and ...
MARY SCHMICH
And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away ... VINCE GILL I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from ...
RAFE SPALL My father had very little formal education.
DANIEL BERRIGAN I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekateri...
NINA ARIANDA I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.
CHRISTOPHER GORHAM It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misun...
ANTON DU BEKE Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
ANTON DU BEKE more formations out there than in a ballroom dancing team.
HENRY WINTER
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. PARIS JACKSON
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg... JENNIFER GARNER I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjo...
MIKE LEIGH We had to turn up the colors in the dance sequences to make people feel that there were different le...
LARS VON TRIER
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's rea... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I'll be in 'The Get Down' from the creator Baz Luhrmann, and it takes place in the '...
JUSTICE SMITH
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where ... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was al...
ZACH GILFORD I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.
GARETH GATES Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the ...
ANTON DU BEKE
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I on... MADONNA CICCONE I forgot what day it was, until I was slow dancing in an empty theatre with my sweetheart, to the so...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value. VIVIEN LEIGH
My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter o... EMMELINE PANKHURST I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
EARL BUTZ I've been in musicals - On Your Toes and Singin' in the Rain - and I'm used to dialogue. Although th...
ADAM COOPER
And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and h... AKSHAY VASU
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main di...
AARON TVEIT When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wante...
CAI GUO-QIANG I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
BILLY CHILDISH
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about ... BERTIE CARVEL After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had p...
JAMES STEWART
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by th... DOLLY PARTON At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very ...
JASPER JOHNS
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle ... KARA LINDSAY We do lots of customized training.
CLARK JACOBS I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANN There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to...
BAZ LUHRMANN I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmma...
BAZ LUHRMANN I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultu...
BAZ LUHRMANN Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite...
BAZ LUHRMANN I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to sp...
BAZ LUHRMANN In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANN When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People f...
BAZ LUHRMANN I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANN All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show...
BAZ LUHRMANN I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
BAZ LUHRMANN A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not goo...
BAZ LUHRMANN One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. I...
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
BAZ LUHRMANN Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then ...
BAZ LUHRMANN Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to ...
BAZ LUHRMANN If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANN Russell, Nicole and I have been wanting to do a large Australian piece for a very long time.
BAZ LUHRMANN We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most ex...
BAZ LUHRMANN We set it in 1899 to reflect where we are,
BAZ LUHRMANN What I think is extraordinary, apart from the inherent values of the ideas, is that we were experien...
BAZ LUHRMANN She is just a life force to be reckoned with,
BAZ LUHRMANN Moulin Rouge
BAZ LUHRMANN It's meant to be an ultra-romantic story
BAZ LUHRMANN To say it is a complex and large-scale undertaking is an understatement and I cannot formally announ...
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it&...
BAZ LUHRMANN I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s b...
BAZ LUHRMANN Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it ...
BAZ LUHRMANN The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie...
BAZ LUHRMANN If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they&#...
BAZ LUHRMANN I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
BAZ LUHRMANN Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway...
BAZ LUHRMANN Fitzgerald was a modernist.
BAZ LUHRMANN In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it'...
BAZ LUHRMANN When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, tha...
BAZ LUHRMANN You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I dec...
BAZ LUHRMANN I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANN One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's '...
BAZ LUHRMANN Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANN I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN
