The Turning Point
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Rosie: Oh, I had the hots for you back in those days. Only I never came up to you because you were always at the barre. And I didn't look so good in tights. And now the toe shoe is on the other foot.
Deedee Rodgers: Oh, really?
Rosie: Yeah. Now we both don't look so good in tights.
Deedee Rodgers: Speak for yourself.

Deedee Rodgers: Emma said some things. First, she said I married you and had a family with because I knew I wasn't good enough to go professional as a ballet dancer. That wasn't true. But... she also said I had a child with you to prove that you were straight. That was sort of true. I wanted.
Wayne: I know.
Deedee Rodgers: You... you do?
Wayne: Yeah. I guess I wanted to prove it myself.

Yuri: Care to have supper?
Emilia: I'm busy.
Yuri: After supper?
Emilia: Bed.
Yuri: Ok... Emilia, it's joke.

Emilia: Daddy wouldn't do what you did.

Sevilla Haslam: You know, only this morning she came up to me and she said, "Sevilla, deary, you're the greatest prima ballerina in the whole world."
Yuri: No, I am.

Deedee Rodgers: That jealousy - it's poison.

Deedee Rodgers: I know you're angry.
Emilia: I'm not angry.
Deedee Rodgers: You damn well are. You're just covering it up with ice. That little Russian behaved like a bastard, so you're taking it out on me.

Emma Jacklin: Dancers have such ugly feet. Ugh. If I was a man, I could have all the feet... I mean, children I wanted to... and still danced.

Trivia: The movie's plot is a fictionalized version of ballerina Lesley Browne (who played Amelia in the film) and her real-life family. Her mother, ballerina Mirrow Brown, was close friends with fellow dancer Nora Kaye (Lesley Browne's godmother). The characters of Emma and DeeDee were based on them. Nora Kaye was married to Hollywood director/producer Herbert Ross, who directed the film. Famed dancer Gelsey Kirkland was originally cast to play Amelia, but when she dropped out, Lesley Browne was cast to play a fictionalized version of herself.

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