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

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

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 did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

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.

Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business - you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.

I would like to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' because I want to be a star.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

Making it to the finale of 'Dancing with the Stars' has been a major accomplishment.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

At 19, I turned professional, and I moved to New York. Then I got the call to do 'Dancing With The Stars,' so I moved to L.A. when I was 20 and did it for 18 seasons - about two a year - until I was 30.

I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I joined the Bolshoi. He was a dancer with the Bolshoi, and we work very intensely together.

I was quite chubby, so when I started dancing professionally I had to work hard to stay slim.

I am a ballroom dancer on WWE programming and in my personal life I am no dancer at all.

I really like Derek Hough.

The Internet has perceived me as this fantastic dancer. I can still do a couple pirouettes, but I am by no means a proper dancer.

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.