Quotes About Artistry

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

A lot of people know that I danced, but I also sang.

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I was more of a dancer back then, I did choreography, but I was nothing like 'Powerline'.

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

Nobody is born a dancer.

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I'm a dancer and comfortable with my body.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

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

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.

Yes, I'm a proud Latina woman, but before that - before the color of my skin, my accent, anything - I'm an actress, singer and dancer. I'm something bigger than just my background.

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.

My first dream was probably to become a dancer, but then I became a singer, and that's also a dream of mine, and I get to do it every day, so I'm living it.

I was a dancer for over 20 years.

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.