Rosie Perez Quotes

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Rosie Perez

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 6, 1964

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

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If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

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I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

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I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

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I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

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I want to be in shape.

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In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

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I have great hair because I take a lot of vitamins.

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With 'Soul Train,' it was the first time I was on television. And I just couldn't believe it.

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I had a ball on 'Soul Train.'

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It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

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I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.

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People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else.

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Hollywood's racist.

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Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

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I used to get recognized quite often as being a 'Soul Train' dancer. Quite often, which was great at times but sometimes was not so great. Especially, back at college, it was not so great. It was pretty tough.

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Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing.

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Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

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I have a picture of all of us going to a club with my friends from 'Soul Train.' All the girls just going out to a nightclub, and we're all dressed like we were dressed on 'Soul Train.' It was the most surreal experience for me because I walk into the club with them, and people started screaming. 'Oh my God! It's the 'Soul Train' dancers.'

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Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

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