Cheryl Burke Quotes

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

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

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.