Jillian Hervey Quotes

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

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

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

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'm a fantastic dancer!

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I always wanted to thrill people with my dancing - just as how K-pop dancing thrilled me.

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

But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

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

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

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

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

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

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.