Jim Peebles Quotes

I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.

Going to salsa clubs may be popular, but I feel we're really missing something as a society by overlooking ballroom dancing. If only we could persuade schools to teach it or there was somewhere young people could go on a Saturday night to learn it.

I used to teach dance lessons.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

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've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

I'm happy to dance with anyone, to be honest. I've had some great partners, who have all been talented. But not all of them at dancing.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

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

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you're looking for a pediatrician.

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

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.

If you want someone to say, 'She's so sweet, and she's so cute, and, honey, point your foot,' that's not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that's what you want to hear.

I have had a variety of ideas, and I have thought about opening a dance studio. I am very passionate about dance. There are not many dance studios where I live.

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.