Dance Background Quotes

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I'm not completely trained in any one area - I'm not a tap person or a ballet person. I don't have a big back-up of steps; I can't just fall back on what I know.

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

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 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.

If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.

I started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of dance there is.

Yeah I had the poof thing before the acting because I did ballet.

It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.