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Neve: You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
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Neve: When you start in this business, you take the things that come at you.
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Neve: When you get away from the audience and you get away from that form of expression and have that moment alone, to even comprehend what you've just been through, is a difficult thing to do.
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Neve: We've never seen what it is that companies go through, what it is that dancers go through on a daily basis, financially, physically, mentally, spiritually.
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Neve: Two people meeting each other-what do you say? There's some pretty trite stuff.
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Neve: There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.
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Neve: There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.
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Neve: The Blue Snake, I think I saw when I was 9. At the time it was incredibly innovative. I was very inspired.
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Neve: Often when you see these Black Widow types, you see from the beginning that they have made a choice of how and who they are going to be.
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Neve: No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
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Neve: Many directors try to direct things that are only going to make the actor uncomfortable. You tend to get more out of the actor if you allow them their freedom.
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Neve: In no way did I want to go into that company and not be up to par, especially having been a professional dancer myself.
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Neve: It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
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Neve: Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
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Neve: That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.
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Neve: The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
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Neve: There aren't that many actors that aren't doing studio movies getting offered studio movies.
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Neve: There's a certain tradition to the way that you behave in dance, and a certain respect that you give to your elders.
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Neve: I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.
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Neve: I've done well in acting. But I guess when you look at the numbers and the odds of actually doing well, it's virtually impossible to get to the place that I'm at.
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Neve: I'm writing a script-a romantic drama, but I don't want to give too much of it away. I'm also writing a long story for a dance movie that I'm doing.
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Neve: I'm worried about the strike for other people. I don't think people will forget who I am, but that could happen to new faces.
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Neve: There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
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Neve: We don't often get to see women be powerful and not play the victim.
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Neve: Why would you say a person's only capable of doing horror films, or they're only capable of doing a quality television show?
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Neve: I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.
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Neve: I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.
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Neve: I was really concerned about Scream 3 being too similar to the first two-that's why I put in my contract that I would only shoot 12 days.
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Neve: I want to be around people that inspire and push me.
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Neve: I think we all have been underestimated and manipulated to some extent, so we get that moment in our minds where we wish we could be dark and get back at those people.
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Neve: I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.
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Neve: I think my greatest insecurity would just be standing in the middle of the room and having everyone watching me think that's what I want. If I am interesting to you because of who I am, then that's incredible. But if I'm interesting to you only because of what I am, than lets not bother, you know?
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Neve: When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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Neve: I suffered from a lot of injuries when I was younger, and I was always struggling with my body. Dancing is hard. I kept getting injured.
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Neve: I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
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Neve: I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything about the world, and I realize I knew nothing.
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Neve: I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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Neve: I broke my rib. I was training with my coach on the Funny Valentine piece. The way that my coach lifted me, he cracked my rib.
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Neve: For a long time I was told to be concerned about people's idea of me regarding the choices I was making and what it would do to my career.
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Neve: Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
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Neve: Because I had hip problems, that leads to everything else-my knees, my ankles, my shins, my back, everything.
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Neve: Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.