William Kempe Quotes

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

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.

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world.

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.

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

My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like, 'Patrick Swayze was a dancer!' And Fred Astaire. I started dancing, and it led me to acting. It helps with fighting or whatever choreography in general.

I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

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

I was always the best actor and best dancer in my college.

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there.

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.

I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

I trained as a dancer and did all that kind of stuff. And as a dancer, pressure's a good thing.

I am most passionate about dancing and acting, so performing was my focus, always. Even before I was old enough to be serious about it, I was always meddling with things - dancing all over the place and performing for my family.

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly.