Maddie Ziegler Quotes

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

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

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 wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

Pure dance form is not dying.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

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.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

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

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

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

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

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

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

I never danced growing up.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.