• The excitable 50-year-old judge from FOX's hit So You Think You Can Dance kicks up for the new season
ON HER WHOOPING ENTHUSIASM If I don't scream, people are so upset. If somebody gets to be on the hot-tamale train [one of her catchphrases of praise], they go berserk. But you know, brother, I never know what I'm going to say. Some of the stuff, it just flies right out of my mouth.
ON THE SUCCESS OF DANCE SHOWS I don't think you could have dreamed this five years ago—dancing just wasn't on TV. If people asked me what I did, I'd say, "Ballroom dancer," and they'd say, "What bar do you work at?" Now I could be welcome at the White House.
ON (FINALLY) PUTTING HER FEET UP I have told my manager I want Labor Day weekend and the three days before that off. I'm renting a house with old friends on Lake Tahoe. Just going to chill out.
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