Daniel Mays Quotes

I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it's seen as an art. And art isn't subsidised in the same way sport is.

Access to sports is an important part of a well-rounded education, and it takes committed communities and companies like Dick's to make a real difference in kids' lives.

I feel like so many girls are too intimidated to walk into their local Boys & Girls Club or YMCA - places that have equipment and offer a lot of opportunities to be active for little-to-no-money but are usually more boy-focused.

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.

What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

My view is, for example with Ballroom and Latin, they do same sex competitions for under 12s and there are usually more girls than boys who want to dance and so there would be all-girl partnerships.

I was a drummer in a group called Three Plus. We were performing at a club in New York, and my mother signed me up for tap classes. I fell in love from the door... so you can blame it on my mother.

To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.

I've been trying to sing for a long time. I didn't realize that's what I wanted to do until I was about seven or eight. I tap danced since I was three years old, and that's all I did.

I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.

If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

Women's empowerment, whether through legal, financial, or cultural routes, will tend to increase their agency and their ability to take part in activism.

Being appreciated for playing a female warrior seems too good to be true. I enjoy playing such empowered roles, and on a related note, that's why I agreed to become the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.

I'm not really good on skates. But dance shoes I can dance in!

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.

I've always been friends with guys who are 6, 7 years older than me.