Wayne McGregor Quotes

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

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

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

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

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

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

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

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

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

I was a dancer, so it was easy for me to dance in films. I had studied Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Odisi and Kathakali much before I even thought of becoming an actor.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

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.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.