I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher…

— Forest Whitaker

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am.…

— Morgan Freeman

I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's…

— Phillipa Soo

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast…

— Lisa Yuskavage

Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home;…

— Katie Piper

I'm not a dancer. Never took a dance class.

— Chrishell Stause

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

— Merce Cunningham

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to…

— Mara Wilson

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul

I was singing R&B songs, listening to Boyz II Men, and I wanted to take dance classes, but I waited until my senior year…

— Vincent Rodriguez III

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've…

— Iggy Azalea

I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough.

— Lindsay Mendez

I do a lot of dance classes in my spare time. I'm a dancer at heart.

— Madelaine Petsch

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups…

— Briana Evigan

I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was…

— Vivian Nixon