Cheryl Burke Quotes

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years.

Nothing in my decade-plus entertainment career has meant more to me personally and professionally than my involvement with HQ.

I am so glad I was able to do 'The Originals,' and I want to be a part of that family for a long time.

When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

I've started getting into quite a bit of voice work, definitely from 'Battlestar.'

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

On 'Beverly Hills 90210,' I was very young and very nervous.

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'

My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.

'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.

Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.

The show is called 'MacGyver,' and I've got to be there every day. There are probably a lot of girls out there watching the show that I don't have time to talk to.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.

I was honored to have the chance to perform on 'The Bachelor.'

I don't work very hard. I dye myself orange and I read out loud in the months from September to December when 'Strictly' is on.

When I was 14, I auditioned for Michael Barrymore's 'My Kind Of People'.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

The last 26 years of my career have all been great.