Juliet Mills Quotes

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.

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

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

When I was about five, I started dancing - like, tap and ballet - in one little class.

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 was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

When I was younger, I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'

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.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

I started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of dance there is.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you're looking for a pediatrician.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

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 grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.