Misty Copeland Quotes

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

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

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

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

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 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.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

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

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I go to studios and dance all the time. And that's something that will always be instilled in me. That was always my first passion from the time I was 3 years old - dance.

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.

There's a lot of Donald Glovers, Jordan Peeles, Justin Simiens. And there's a lot of me's, too.

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.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

I did a postgrad at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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 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 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.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour performance. Dancers put their bodies through incredible strain.

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.