Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

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

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.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I don't have dance history or background.

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

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

I have never been a good dancer but am very passionate about it.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.

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

I never danced growing up.

I'm not a professional dancer.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

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

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

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

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

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

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.