Jerome Robbins Quotes

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

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.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I'm a fantastic dancer!

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.

I love musicals more than anything.

I'm always in the studio working on music and dancing.

I grew up dancing and singing and I just love everything about that.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.

I was a good dancer from my school days, and that's why I entered reality shows.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.