Marques Houston Quotes

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

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 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.

Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

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.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

I started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of dance there is.

I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

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

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

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 wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.