Richard Madden Quotes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

I am not a natural dancer, not even a half way competent dancer.

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

I don't have dance history or background.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

I like to dance. I'm not going to say that I'm a good dancer.

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you've got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

It's like, either you're a great dancer and you're going to do great, or it doesn't come naturally to you.

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

I am not a natural dancer.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.