J. B. Smoove Quotes

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

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.

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

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 don't dab, bro.

I'm tryna figure out when I'm gonna do my version of the Moonwalk... It's coming, you know? That Dolla $ign moonwalk is comin'.

I think if I was like Fred Astaire out there or like break dance fighting and doing crazy splits and stuff like that I think people would be like, 'ehhhh, I'm just going to watch him,' but the fact that they're like, 'I can do that,' it's fun and I think they lose themselves.

Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.

I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

A dancing movie with Remo is something I would love to take up.

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

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

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 was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

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.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

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