Laverne Cox Quotes

I never danced growing up.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn't matter.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

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

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn't very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.

Pure dance form is not dying.

I go to studios and dance all the time. And that's something that will always be instilled in me. That was always my first passion from the time I was 3 years old - dance.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I'm glad my mom made me do it.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

I used to teach dance lessons.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.