Center Stage (2000)
Zoe Saldana: Eva
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Quotes
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[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.
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Eva Rodriguez : [Sergei drops Maureen] Careful with that one. You break it, you bought it!
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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.
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Jim Gordon : Have you seen my girlfriend? Tall, thin, legs for days?
Eva : Yeah, I pitched her overboard.
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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.
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Jody Sawyer : She's so good.
Eva : Yeah, just ask her.
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Eva Rodriguez : A girl's got a right to know what kind of hound she's saving herself for.
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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.
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Eva Rodriguez : What, did you go to a special bitch academy or something?
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Erik Jones : Where are you going?
Eva : We're going out for a smoke.
Erik Jones : Oh, come downstairs. It's Marlboro country.
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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.
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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.