Quotes About Dedication

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

There was never really a moment that I decided that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. It's always just felt like it's what I was meant to do.

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.

When I was 3 years old, my parents put me in ballet and I really thought I was gonna be a ballet dancer for a long time.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

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

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

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

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

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 am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

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

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

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

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

I used to be a dancer.

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.