Quotes About Perseverance

I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. I haven't seen anybody else work more.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

I am not a natural dancer.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.

For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.

It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.