Center Stage (2000)

Zoe Saldana: Eva

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Quotes 

• [In pas de deux class] 

  Sergei : I am your slave.

  Eva Rodriguez : I'd believe it more if you weren't staring at your fucking reflection when you said it.

  Instructor : If someone wants to hear profanity, Miss Rodriguez, they can take a subway. They don't need to spend sixty dollars on a ballet ticket.

  [to Sergei] 

  Instructor : Though she has a point.

• Eva Rodriguez : [Sergei drops Maureen]  Careful with that one. You break it, you bought it!

• Eva Rodriguez : I screwed up any chance I had back in September. But I started dancing long before this stupid workshop, and I'm gonna keep on dancing long after it. So tomorrow is one more day I get to dance.

• Eva : What a prick.

  Jody : But he was really nice about it.

  Eva : Being nice when you say something pricky is even prickier.

• Jim Gordon : Have you seen my girlfriend? Tall, thin, legs for days?

  Eva : Yeah, I pitched her overboard.

• Erik Jones : My stage name is Erik O. Jones after Oprah. She is my idol.

  Eva Rodriguez : Eva Rodriquez, after no one.

  Erik Jones : Oh, an individual. I like it.

• Jody Sawyer : She's so good.

  Eva : Yeah, just ask her.

• Eva Rodriguez : A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for.

• Eva Rodriguez : Truth? In terms of technique, you are behind. But the people here know what they're looking for. And on the day of you audition, they saw it. In you.

  Jody Sawyer : Now all they see is the wrong body type.

• Eva Rodriguez : What, did you go to a special bitch academy or something?

• Eva : So, you know the story with this Maureen chick?

  Sergei : You're living with Maureen? Oh, good luck.

  Eva : Big time bitch?

  Sergei : Biggest time.

• Erik Jones : Where are you going?

  Eva : We're going out for a smoke.

  Erik Jones : Oh, come downstairs. It's Marlboro country.

• Maureen Cummings : I'm just trying to be honest. That's what friends do.

  Eva : I guess that would explain why you have so many friends.

• Jonathan Reeves : [to the casual bubblegum-chewing late-comer]  And you are?

  Eva : Eva Rodriguez.

  Jonathan Reeves : So glad you could fit us into your busy schedule, Eva.

  Eva : [with a big smile]  Oh, no sweat.