Anton du Beke Quotes

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

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

There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

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.

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

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be.

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

Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

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

From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.

I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.

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'm not a professional dancer.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.