Jacob Artist Quotes

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.

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

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

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.

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

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.

It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and then went to New York and became a dancer. I thought I'd die before I did anything else.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

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

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

I started dancing at the age of three in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio, and it really was my sister's dream to pursue dance professionally.

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

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.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

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.'