Maura Tierney Quotes

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after.

I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

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

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

I could have been a dancer. I just never got my shot at it.

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

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

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 started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

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

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

I was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured.

When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

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.