Daisy Shah Quotes

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

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

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.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

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

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

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

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

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

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

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.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I used to teach dance lessons.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

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

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

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

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

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 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 started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

I'm a fantastic dancer!

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