Oti Mabuse Quotes

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 started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

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

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.

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

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

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.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.