Quotes About Expression

If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

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

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

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.

I realized I'm a very, very white dancer.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

I'm a terrible dancer.

I am a bad dancer.

I used to be a dancer.

I was a dancer for over 20 years.

When I first came to NXT, I was wearing the neon stuff. Then I got away from it and ended up being a Funkadactyl dancer, which was awesome.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an audience, and when it's just five quiet people at a table, that's not the same.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I'm a bit of an attention seeker, so I'm always looking for a table or some height to get up on and dance.