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All Quotes by author - Harry Shum, Jr.
" Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts. "
Song
Will
Nuts
" Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents. "
Styles
Different
Talents
" I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it. "
Got
Audition
Me
" I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle. "
Dance
Than
Circle
" I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now. "
Respect
Most
Capable
" I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance. "
Know
Dance
Day
" I'm actually really shy. "
Really
Shy
Actually
" I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight. "
Then
Midnight
Creative
" I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring. "
Creative
You
Football
" I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her. "
Time
Amazing
Travel
" I started working when I was 9 or 10. "
Started
Working
" It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh. "
People
Laugh
Say
" I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things. "
Person
Like
Patience
" I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school. "
High School
School
Late
" I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time. "
Work
Job
Me
" I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me. "
World
Where
Born
" I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs. "
Got
Couple
Who
" I would be in a room full of people being loud and running around, and I'd be in the corner just playing with the wall. So I was very, very quiet, but when I really got into the arts, that opened me up. "
Me
Loud
Arts
" My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.' "
Done
College
Die
" Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool. "
Anything
iPhone
Cool
" Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like. "
Like
Out
Before
" The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all. "
Day
Body
You
" When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling. "
Work
You
School
" When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature. "
Play
Nature
Mother
" When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other. "
Create
You
Important
" When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me. "
Parents
Me
Thought
" With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum. "
Way
Only
Parents
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