Rob Sheffield Quotes

I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.

I don't have dance history or background.

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

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

But there is a world of difference between dancing and watching a dance performed by a group of professionals who are paid for it. You work hard during the day, and when you are tired in the evening you go to a concert to watch others dancing. It is all you can do, but it is not even an apology for celebration.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

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

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

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 a fantastic dancer!

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn't matter.

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

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.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.