High school Quote by Ariana DeBose

I would tell any and all young people who are curious about a life in the performing arts to stay curious, stay humbled, and…

— Ariana DeBose

I'm a Broadway girl at heart.

— Ariana DeBose

As a queer woman of colour I've been asked to be more urban, as if my brand of Blackness wasn't quite Black enough. I…

— Ariana DeBose

When I think of growing up, I see dance, I hear music and I think of teachers.

— Ariana DeBose

In your formative years what you see really shapes so much of who you're going to become and so many of the things I…

— Ariana DeBose

The more positive representation and accurate representation we have in the world, the more we can understand ourselves better.

— Ariana DeBose

I was probably seven or eight when I first watched 'West Side Story.' The film - and 'Dance with Me' with Vanessa Williams and…

— Ariana DeBose

I'm a woman. I fluctuate, I bloat - one day I'm curvy, one day I'm lean. That doesn't mean that there aren't days where…

— Ariana DeBose

To me colour is part of what makes you 'you,' but it's not your whole thing. I'm very aware of it but I don't…

— Ariana DeBose

When I first started out, I wanted to be Madonna's backup dancer.

— Ariana DeBose

I don't like work experiences, period, where I feel like I'm asked to fit a box, because my job is to discover the box…

— Ariana DeBose

When I was 11, I was riding in the car with my mother. We were in the middle of a dance workshop, and on…

— Ariana DeBose