Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

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

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

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.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

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

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

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

Pure dance form is not dying.

My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

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.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.