Jillian Hervey Quotes

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.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

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

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

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

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.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

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

I majored in dance in college.

Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

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

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

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

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

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 was singing R&B songs, listening to Boyz II Men, and I wanted to take dance classes, but I waited until my senior year of high school to take my very first dance class.

I am a trained classical dancer.

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.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.