Anton du Beke Quotes

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

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.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When I was about five, I started dancing - like, tap and ballet - in one little class.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

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

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

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.

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.

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.

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.

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

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

I used to teach dance lessons.