Janet Jackson Quotes

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.

A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.

My choreography is very classically based.

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

I have some rhythm, but I definitely learned a lot from Jamal Sims and Spencer Henderson.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I don't sing. I don't dance.

The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.

I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.

In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.