Professional Dancers Quotes

I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.

Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor.

'Dancing With The Stars' is a little family. The cast, we're all together - we're a really friendly competition.

The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

I've learnt not to expect a lot from supermodels - we've had them on 'Strictly' before and they've been horrendous.

Strictly' is a machine, it's a beast! It's the biggest show on television, I was thrilled I was allowed to come to watch the show - let alone work on it!

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

One of the reasons I said yes to doing 'Strictly' was because it is so far removed from what I do for a living ordinarily.

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

I'd love to go on 'Strictly' but I just don't think they'd let me on. I'm basically a ringer, as I've danced against some of the professionals in competitions when I was younger.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.