Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

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'm a fantastic dancer!

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

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.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

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

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.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

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 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 found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

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

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

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

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 used to teach dance lessons.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.