Anton du Beke Quotes

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

I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

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

Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business - you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.

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

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I know I'm never going to be a professional ballroom dancer.

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.

I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.

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

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.