Remo D'Souza Quotes

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

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

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I've had a lot of little girls write to me saying that they want to be dancers and that I've inspired them.

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

All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

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

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

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

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

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

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 wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

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.'

It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and then went to New York and became a dancer. I thought I'd die before I did anything else.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

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

I was striving to become an engineer, but something happened that made me think, 'Maybe I can make games instead.'

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

My family plays a big part in my role as a dancer and my sister was my first trainer. She's still my role model and inspiration until this day. She was my first trainer, she taught me my first steps.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

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.