Annie Wersching Quotes

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

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.

My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.

I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted.

Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home; tap dancing on the granite fireplace, which must have mortified my dad.

My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

During the summer, I used to hate when my mom would call me inside to eat - it was such a drag to leave all the fun.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

I grew up listening to everybody.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.

My dad left his psychology hat at the door and put his dad hat on when he came into the house. It's amazing having my dad have that awesome job. My mother was a model back in the day. I've seen the pictures. My mother's beautiful.

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.