Arlene Phillips Quotes

Arlene Phillips

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : May 22, 1943

When you think about how many wars are created through the word religion it's hard to identify with it, or even accept it.

Arlene Phillips

I am five foot two and a half, and vary between a size 10 and size 12.

Arlene Phillips

That's why I love Las Vegas - it is the ultimate place for excitement.

Arlene Phillips

Women should have parity with men. End of story.

Arlene Phillips

My day job has always been in the theatre.

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When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

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Not only was I not a good dancer, I was one of the worst. I didn't have the long thin legs, and I didn't have natural turnout. The only thing I had was determination.

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I Iove a dancer who is willing to take risks with their body and go that extra mile to move the audience.

Arlene Phillips

Saturdays have become like, you know, the Boomtown Rats - 'I Don't Like Mondays.' I don't like Saturdays.

Arlene Phillips

If tacky souvenirs like fridge magnets and slogan T-shirts are your thing, you'll be in your element in Las Vegas.

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I don't know what it would be like to stop work; I can't imagine what I would do.

Arlene Phillips

I love fashion magazines and style magazines and when I'm travelling on an aeroplane I always have a big bag slung over my shoulder, which is full of magazines.

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Women follow me around. On a British Airways flight, at Liverpool station - everywhere.

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It's hard for anyone to say that they chose to put their parent in a home rather than give up a large part of their own life to care for them, and thinking about the years leading up to my father's death still punishes me.

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I like dancers who demand of themselves to achieve, not just technically but also as performers.

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My career has just been fantastic - but most importantly, I have an amazing family.

Arlene Phillips

I have always loved theatre and I will always do it.

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I have always seen myself as a choreographer first and foremost.

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I don't know how my parents ever paid for my dance classes when I was little. We even had to line our shoes with newspaper when there were holes in them because we couldn't afford to get them soled.

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Certainly after 'Strictly' I was in a very vulnerable situation.

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