Footloose Quotes

"It`s amazing with the album going Gold and all the i-Tunes downloads and everything. It`s insane. We don`t have a Grease or Footloose or Flashdance in this generation. And it`s great that they have something that`s readily available tp all these kids so they can download the music and listen to the songs. Now they can learn the dances and watch it at home, and soon they`ll be able to buy it on DVD, and then they`ll have some part of the music, because the music is so important, especially to a child`s life."

Before Footloose, the things I`d done weren`t cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

A long time ago, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a pop star. Then I started taking acting classes. I moved to New York when I was a teenager, and really wanted to be a serious actor. I wanted to do off-Broadway, I wanted to do (Anton Chekhov), (William Shakespeare). I wanted to have a Meryl Streep kind of career. When Footloose (1984) came out, I became a pop star, but by then that`s not what I wanted. I wasn`t being taken seriously. I wasn`t smart about the industry and the ways that you can parlay pop stardom into a serious acting career if you make the right choices. I spun my wheels for a while, and then I got this part in Oliver Stone`s JFK (1991). It`s a small part, but very character-driven: gay, fascist, I mean, it was extreme. That turned things around for me. I didn`t even read for it. Oliver just looked at me and said, "Will you transform yourself for me?" And I said, "Yes". Off-Broadway I`d been doing that, but that doesn`t mean anybody in the movie industry is going to see you that way.