Candice Swanepoel Quotes

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

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.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

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.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

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.

I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

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.

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

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.