Oti Mabuse Quotes

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing, and the salsa is just so sexy.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

I'm not a big dancer!

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

People ask me who I'd like to dance with. I think that Lucy Fallon - she's seems... She's a good height. I saw her at a party once and I thought, blonde, yep - perfect. Lifts, we could work it.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.

I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be.

When I first saw the Juicy Wiggle dance in Australia, I fell in love! I had to write about it.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

'ABCD' is an out-and-out dance film. I also dance in the film. I must say you would see better dancers than me in this film. It was very tough for me to match their steps.

Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up.

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.