Jon M. Chu Quotes

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

I would love to be able to tap dance.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I tap dance.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.

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.

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 started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

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

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

My first vocation was dance.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

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

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.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

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.

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've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

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 started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.