Daisy Shah Quotes

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

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

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver's studios - kind of legendary places - and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory's a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.

The business has been good to me.

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

I want my life to move on. On the other hand, I can't say no to offers, not when I'm getting £50,000 a year to be Eddie the Eagle.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.