Michael Gambon Quotes

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'

I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.

I've loved and been so passionate about dance since I was three years old, and it's really what I wanted to do as a career.

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

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

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

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'