Caroline Flack Quotes

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

I have worked with several dance companies.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

I was a dancer and performer.

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.

If anyone is calling me to choreograph a dance, they know my style, and they know I am a taskmaster. They want to present themselves as a good dancer before their fans, and that is why they want me to choreograph.

I love dancing but acting is a passion.

I've danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

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

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

I am a trained classical dancer.

When you take on an acting or dancing role, you have to trust your director, and in some ways there is freedom in relinquishing control.