“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.”

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.

I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.

It’s been exhausting. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done because it’s just so big, and I haven’t had a lot of time.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.

I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.

Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.

Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).

the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. …

They could recognize each other’s style by their dots and dashes. They called that the “fist.” St. George, they have a fist.

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.