Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she’s just this person who blows out of the screen. She’s just incredible.
ADAM SHANKMANMost of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.
More Adam Shankman Quotes
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I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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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).
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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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