Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

I loved dance.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

Dance is my passion.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I'm a dancer. It's what I love to do more than anything.

It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing.

Steps come up all the time, but not dances.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

I tap dance.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

I've been dancing for 10 years.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.