Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

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.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

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

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

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

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

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.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

I have plans to send my little daughter and son into dancing because I'd love for them to enjoy it too.

I never danced growing up.

Even though I can't dance, that's, like, the one thing I wished I could do growing up. I used act like I was MJ, doing the moonwalk, tip toes, leg kick, all that.

I'm not a professional dancer.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.